Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egyptian blockade by sending ships into the gulf "with their flags flying." Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who knows where the votes come from in New York, proposed that the U.N. send a naval patrol into the gulf. If the U.N. failed to act, he said, the U.S. should step in with other interested nations. Such a seaborne U.N. patrol, he explained, "does not raise many of the same problems as stationing ground troops within the territory of any country." In the House, 96 Representatives pledged support of President Johnson in "whatever action may be necessary to resist aggression against Israel...
...inspired not only by their father's swollen rhetoric but by the martial music that suddenly took the place of whiny Arab folk songs on Radio Cairo. The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem. National Guardsmen in Da mascus had a fine time stopping all traffic on the city's wide boulevards and ordering everyone to take shelter-even though nothing more ominous appeared in the sky than...
...winning canine defections to the North. This petty bit of harassment shows just how far the Communist North Koreans are willing to go to stir up trouble on the border. They have increased their subversion and infiltration attempts by 40% this year, and in recent weeks have continued to step up the pace...
...schedule. But many educators admit that local communities can no longer be counted upon as the primary source of support for public schools. "We need help," says Cincinnati's Miller. "If citizens on the local level refuse to support schools, the state or federal governments will have to step...
...chose not to wear his ancestry as a social decoration but to accept it as a present doom and to argue with the Pilgrim Fathers as if they were living men. His poems call the Puritan spirit of New England to sharp account and make his ancestral portraits step from their frames and answer to Lowell. Thus his dialogue becomes an argument about his own nature, in terms of the Calvinist obsessions with sin, damnation, God and Satan. Lowell does not possess his ancestors; they possess...