Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, however, Hanoi's Paris mission took the next step itself and issued a statement labeling Redmont's report a "pure invention." The only truth in it, said the statement, was that "conversations"-not peace talks-will take place if the bombings stop. Apparently, Hanoi's man in Paris had been carried away by his own rhetoric and had told Redmont more than his government thought prudent...
...heavy loss of U.S. gold. Last month's unprecedented visit by Treasury Under Secretary Frederick Deming to a meeting in Basel of the Bank for International Settlements, a clubby group of bankers who pointedly exclude government officials, started frenzied rumors that the U.S. was proposing some drastic step. That set off another round of speculation, which, by expert estimate, cost the U.S. anywhere from $100 million to $400 million in gold. Who did all the buying? Mostly speculators, ranging from Middle Eastern sheiks and wealthy Latin Americans to some Americans who dodge U.S. restrictions on gold ownership by dealing...
...effort on the death of Winston Churchill laments that "the route was difficult, and the peak remote" for "the young fox-haired firebrand of debate." That verse won the Times Literary Supplement's nomination for 1965's worst poem. Several years ago, however, Day-Lewis took a step that should prove enormously helpful. As he relates in his autobiography The Buried Day (1960), he refuses to subscribe to a press-clipping service...
...product of the government's treatment of dissenters characteristic of the post-McCarthy period. He once said that he imagined that the current crop of war resistors probably started out being "nice, sincere, honest, strictly legal, thoughtful guys who never dreamt of being radical or of taking a step that would put them in prison." He might as well have been describing himself...
...altar to be slaughtered by the government. I think that argument misses the point that sometimes martyrdom can be useful. By our actions, we galvanize other people into similar acts. There is a whole new generation of energy. It reaches not only the guys who take the step, but also their parents and friends. Let's face it, these are the sons of some powerful, influential people. For whatever selfish reasons, their parents and friends are pushed pretty far. Just like in Chester...