Word: steps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Willie Bob took a daring step: he organized a county police force to compete with the sheriff's office. Big, mean, 29-year-old Ambrose Metcalfe, who had served as a sergeant in an armored division during World War II, became its captain. He swaggered out to "throw the fear of God" into Harlan County...
...dollars ; for Puerto Rico it would make a lot of sense. To guarantee ample power for expanding industry, the government is carrying out a major program of hydroelectric-energy development. Its goal is an output of 700 million kw-h a year by 1970. The latest step in the project is the massive $10 million Caonillas Dam in the hills between San Juan and Ponce...
Until last year, Puerto Rico's Governors were appointed by the U.S. President, subject to Senate confirmation. Judges of the island's Supreme Court are still presidential appointees, but Puerto Ricans feel that they took a long step ahead in the democratic process when a new U.S. law allowed them to elect their own governor...
...step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain...
...which the artist deals actual death and risks actual death, as if a poet were called upon to scan his lines with his life . . . All arts, even the most abstract, are essentially creations to thrill. To allow man to participate in God's designs at one step removed from the anguish of living them...