Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday clothes" and educated in a military academy, he is not unmindful of tradition or innocent of the doubts he has stirred. But his long march across the nation to the presidency led him to believe there is a new drumbeat out there and he is more in step than a lot of others...
...Vietnamese provided more tangible evidence of the breakthrough by giving the delegation the bodies of twelve pilots-their names had been announced last September -for return to the U.S. In addition, the Vietnamese disclosed that they had found a 13th pilot's remains, and they said they would step up the search for other bodies. Spurred by their success in Hanoi, the Americans flew at week's end to Vientiane in search of information about U.S. servicemen who disappeared in Laos during...
...there should be fair competition between the West Germans' Leopard II battle-tank prototype and the Americans' XM-1; if the Leopard won the competition, the U.S. would also accept it as its major armored vehicle for the mid-1980s. The decision was hailed as an important step toward equipment standardization within NATO-until U.S. military pride and industry pressure opposed it. As a compromise, Schlesinger's successor, Donald Rumsfeld, worked out an agreement in principle with the Germans to make both tanks "interoperable." The XM1 would take the 120-mm. smooth-bored gun used...
Long before then, industry will step up the search for saccharin alternatives. One clearly in sight, called Neo-DHC (neohesperidine dihydrochalcone-one trade name, SUKOR), has a lingering aftertaste with menthol overtones. It sweetens grapefruit juice or grapefruit-flavored soda; it is made from grapefruit and orange rinds. So far, it has had no adverse effect on rats or journalists who have sampled...
Middleaged, heavyset, slow of step and quiet of speech. Mother Kusters is betrayed by her eyes. Even when she is hurt and puzzled-which is much of the time in this movie-there is something lively and shrewd in them. One senses that in tragic circumstances she has found a challenge worthy of the reserves of fortitude and understanding she has been treasuring up through a dreary little life...