Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leftists announced that in some elections they might throw their support behind candidates of Jean Lecanuet's Progressive Catholic Party. (Cracked Socialist Mollet: "Hell does not begin just to the right of the Radical Party.") The Socialist vice president of the National Assembly, Jean Montalat, went even one step further. Pact or no pact, he warned stoutly, he would refuse to bow out to a Communist if he faced a run-off election...
...document that Spain approved represents no great leap toward Western-style democracy, but it is at least a step in the direction of political liberalization. It guarantees religious freedom to the tiny minority of Spaniards-30,000 Protestants and 6,000 Jews-who were not born into Catholic families. It confirms the law of last year that relaxed government controls over the labor movement, including the right to strike, and all but destroys the already hollow shell of the Falangist Party. It also creates direct elections for one-fifth of the members of Parliament; the other four-fifths will continue...
...death of Franco, who until now has been virtually the sole and single source of full power, will not create such chaos that no choice is possible. It specifies that Franco must remain as chief of state for as long as he lives, but gives him "permission" to step aside as chief of government and turn over operating control of the regime to a premier of his own choosing-if he so desires...
...United Nations Security Council last week took a historic step, of sorts. For the first time in its 21 years of existence, it resorted to mandatory economic sanctions to try to bring down a government...
...face it: it didn't hurt the act either. Of course, we weren't always in the same show." One summer at the resort of Blackpool, for instance, "we were on the pier, and she was in the big theater in town, really a step above...