Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Figure skating star Dorothy Hamill has enjoyed all of the publicity and attention that surrounds a three-time national champion. Her picture is on the cover of Time Magazine. ABC has followed her every step on the way for three years. Many feel she has the best shot for an American gold medal in the upcoming Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria...
...beyond them his enemies were still lurking. While his finger slowly circled the rim of a wineglass, Nixon told his aides: "One day we'll get them-we'll get them on the ground where we want them. And we'll stick our heels in, step on them hard and twist." His eyes darted to Kissinger. "Henry knows what I mean-just like you do in the negotiations, Henry-get them on the floor and step on them, crush them, show no mercy...
...Front. Revel admits that Communists can effectively exploit the contradictions in capitalist societies to lure nations to disaster. They "destroy, in the name of socialism, political democracy and install systems that are neither democratic nor socialist and that are, to boot, economically and humanely very inferior to capitalism." One step on that road to destruction, Revel warns, is the popular front. Through it, Communists gain a respite in their struggle with the right when the right is too strong for direct confrontation; they also frustrate the building of a reformist bloc by splitting its potential members be tween one side...
PERLMUTTER: Israel is preparing for elections in March, [which] I think is a first step toward settlement. You know, the people on the West Bank can participate in Jordanian elections. Have you heard of any other occupied people who vote in elections for a state that is an avowed enemy of Israel like Jordan...
...book progresses, stereotypes of pale children, bearded old men and worried mothers in babushkas step aside for anarchists who gather on Yom Kippur to dance, eat and sing La Marseillaise "and other hymns against Satan." Gangster Arnold Rothstein makes it all the way from Hester Street to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the underworld character Meyer Wolfsheim. Outside New York, Jewish peddlers roam the South, and Jewish farmers plow as far away as Oregon. There are even Jewish cowboys of a sort. Writing home from Kansas, one incipient blazing saddler complains that...