Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamara's news was greeted sympathetically by Washington critics of the war, who see the barrier as a possible first step to scale down the bombing of North Viet Nam. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged such a barricade since April. But there was little enthusiasm from soldiers. They oppose any attempt to tie down troops in static positions while the enemy roams free. "Militarily, it's no great shakes," grumbled a Marine officer. An Army general was kinder. "I guess it can't hurt anything," he hazarded, "if it doesn't draw...
...walked step after step, stiffly, as though he were not bending his legs, more bronze emperor than ever in a dark uniform surrounded by light and white uniforms ... a legendary figure returned from some imperial tomb...
Goldmark envisions EVR as "a new educational art form" in which "you can have your teacher mailed to you." When EVR is perfected, he says, master teachers will "communicate with kids with the same intensity as Mickey Mouse does now," while housewives replay souffles step by step with Julia Child and amateur cellists (like Goldmark himself) play duets with Pablo Casals...
Berlin remained the major cockpit of contention: in 1948, 1958 and 1961, it brought the antagonists near the brink but always just a step short. Then, in 1962, Khrushchev made his biggest blunder by putting Soviet missiles into Cuba. It was then, argues Halle, that the cold war reached its hottest point. Khrushchev's backdown was the Waterloo...
...both equipment and expertise to the patient as fast as possible; he installed the gear in an ambulance. Now, a telephone call to the Royal Victoria gets the mobile intensive-care unit to the patient's door promptly-in four out of five cases, within 15 minutes. Out step a doctor and a nurse, usually with two medical students, armed with the life-saving devices with which they give the most urgent emergency care...