Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even today, a certain xenophobia, perhaps inspired by two world wars, still lingers, as does the reluctance to take any step that might "let down the Commonwealth." Moreover, the party's aging unionists, haunted by memories of Depression unemployment, oppose lowering tariffs against Continental merchandise, which, they fear, would imperil the jobs of British workers...
...Zone, Imbert snorted that Guzmán was "a Bosch puppet." Imbert refused point-blank to dissolve his own Government of National Reconstruction, argued vehemently that Guzmán would be tantamount to turning the country over to the Communists. Bundy and the others repeatedly pleaded with Imbert to step gracefully aside. Each time the answer was the same. "Why the hell did you bring all those troops here if you weren't going to stop Communism...
...over, however, for El Mahdi has no sympathy for leftist causes, and he too was in Khartoum last week, busily hammering together the government that will take office when Khalifa's mandate expires next month. El Mahdi hopes to form a broad conservative coalition Cabinet as the first step in reunifying the Sudan. To end the Negro rebellion, he plans to offer the south "a large measure of local self-government," guarantee it at least three posts on the 15-member Cabinet, outlaw discrimination. He also intends to push for a constitution that would give the added stability...
...implacable foe of tax loopholes that oil, mining and banking interests tried to block his nomination. He helped shape the $1.5 billion depreciation reform of 1962 and the $11.5 billion income tax cut of 1964, regards excise taxes as "a haphazard and discriminatory jumble which was the next logical step in reforming the tax system...
Tripled Wave. Step by painful step Schmidt's search identified spectrogram lines and unlocked the spectral secrets of five new quasars. The most distant of them, 3C-9, showed signs of a kind of ultraviolet which comes from the sun in considerable quantities but is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere. It had never been photographed before by surface observatories. In the 3C-9's spectrum, its wave length had been more than tripled by shifting toward the red. It showed as an easily photographed blue and proved that the quasar's speed...