Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anthropologists, who rightly regard stable marriage as the foundation of society. But it is only half the tragedy of divorce in America. The real scandal is not that so many Americans resort to divorce. It is that so many of the laws of the land are sadly out of step with the growing recognition that, for both married couples and society, divorce is often preferable to a dead marriage...
...comedians are all the characters, playing out their painful, useless little lives under the blistering sun, supposedly caring deeply about all sorts of things which can be considered only comic when compared to the course of humanity itself, or the universe. Every once in a while the narrator steps back and comments on how they are all comedians, as sad and funny as clowns on a stage. The real irony is that the narrator never has to step back and comments on how they are all comedians, as sad and funny as clowns on a stage. The real irony...
Last year, they point out, the Coop took its first step toward filling the Fall shelves at the beginning of May, when it sent a form letter to all professors teaching courses in the Fall and asked for a list of their required books. At the bottom was stamped "Early Information is Important!" The reason for the exclamation mark was simple: it would take publishers three to six weeks to ship the textbooks that the Coop ordered...
...first U.S. poll tax on voters, a ten-shilling levy enacted by New Hampshire in 1784, did away with property qualifications for voting, thus served as an important halfway step to full suffrage. Though almost all the states abandoned even this vestige of moneyed privilege before the Civil War, Southern legislatures subsequently revived it as a device to disfranchise the Negro...
Chief motive for Pearson's decision to step down before another election is his belief that the Canadian electorate has grown tired of the running battle between himself and crotchety former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, leader of the Conservative opposition. He has set himself no deadline, but his job-hunting aides believe he may call a Liberal Party conference to choose his successor as Prime Minister some time this year. Among leading candidates are three middle-roaders: Minister of Trade and Commerce Robert Winters, 55, an old Pearson crony; Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, 54, who engineered Canada...