Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even assuming that America is capable of innovation in every aspect of war, the bombing is not a welcome precedent for a nation that has long been known for its moralistic foreign policy. We certainly respect the American ability at self-control which the sophisticated idea of a step-like escalation seems to demonstrate, but the logic of escalation itself seems very alien to us. It looks like beating somebody with one hand, while asking at the same time for a gentlemanly discussion with him. Should he accept the invitation, he has surrendered; this might be honorable for the hitter...
...smog-control law was enacted, requiring individual counties to take action but also giving the state power to step in if nothing is done at the local level. A long-needed reform centralized the state's fragmented, inefficient purchasing system. Plans are in the works to revamp the scandal-ridden Liquor Control Board, stripping it of its responsibility for narcotics control. In the traditionally delicate area of ethics, some tough new regulations were enacted, including one that bars a legislator and any of his family from doing business with the state...
...Then it would set, bringing on a night of the same duration. It remained for a Cornell University graduate astronomy student, Steven Soter, 23, to point out that the sun's otherwise dull journey across Mercury's sky is enlivened by a solar variety of the hesitation step...
...least several tablespoons of wit to the part, and Claflin ought to do better. Wilkinson's failure is difficult to explain. Physically he is suited to the part of an aging man of science and affair who still has an eye for the chorines. Unfortunately he is always a step or so behind the action, looking on but stepping aside to let the real characters go by. Miss Moore is no comedian...
...Sadler doesn't take a step without offerings a 2000-word discourse on where he is going and where he has come from. He visits the Alamo; three pages on the history of Texas. On the Alamo's wall is a plaque recalling the battle of Thermopylae: two pages on the history of Greece. Sadler gets tattooed: a page noting everyone from Field Marshal Montgomery to Winston Churchill's mother who had a tattoo...