Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest crisis had eased before turning into an outright calamity. But in the long run, Rockefeller's solution seemed to offer little consolation for a city already traumatized by excessively high taxes and strike-happy unions. As written by Rockefeller, the moral of New York's latest step toward chaos seemed to be that it pays to strike...
Victory Marches. Defiant Flemish students, feeling a step closer to their goal, staged victory marches through the cobblestoned streets of Louvain, chanting Flemish slogans and bringing out the cops again. "Whenever the language issue crops up in this country," noted Vanden Boeynants sadly, "passion takes over." Language is the surface issue, but the root of the crisis goes far deeper. The Flemish bitterly resent more than a century of domination by prosperous, influential Walloons, who constituted a majority of the Belgian population until World War II. Since then, huge foreign investments in less-developed Flanders and a higher Flemish birth...
...army in 1916, Richter joined up with the anarchistic Dadaists in Zurich. Nonetheless, his basic predilection for order made him equally sympathetic to the constructivists. In his "scroll paintings," he experimented with a constructivist image, repeated with variations, along a long panel. From there, it was only a step, in 1921, to Rhythm 21, one of the first art films made...
...Henry Ford himself, reports persisted around the auto business last week that he might soon step aside as head of the company he has run since 1945, perhaps to take a Cabinet post in Washington. "That's a lot of baloney," Ford said. "I'm going to continue to do just what I've always done-right here in Detroit...
Since "every letter has a cluster of preferred associations that constitute its most distinguishing characteristic," the next step is to set up a contact chart. This shows how often each letter precedes and is succeeded by each other letter. From this it is clear that N in the ciphertext stands for plaintext e: it is the most frequently used letter, and associates more often with more different characters than does any other letter...