Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step the Health Services may take, Ferris suggested, is to intensify the warnings about smoking which examining physicians give freshmen during examinations at the beginning of the year...
...mythology, essential to the twentieth-century American funeral rite has grown up--or rather has been built up step by step--to justify the peculiar customs surrounding the disposal of our dead... Gradually, almost imperceptibly, over the years the funeral men have constructed their own grotesque cloud-cuckooland where the trappings of Gracious Living are transformed, as in a nightmare, into the trappings of Gracious Dying... The emphasis is one the same desirable qualities that we have all been schooled to look for in our daily search for excellence: comfort, durability, beauty, craftsmanship." From THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH...
Even if U.S.-Soviet negotiations for a broader nuclear-ban treaty appear hopeless, the solution of a unilateral step toward disarmament, taken by this country with the hope that the Russians would follow suit, would not be advisable, Kaysen said...
...security of other countries must be considered in such an action, and the complications and risks involved would seem to me to outweigh any chances of a significant step toward disarmament...
Militant, organized Negroes argue that the only solution is to import white students to Negro schools on the bitter theory that this will guarantee adequate teaching. Superintendent Gross has ruled that out. He backs every integration step "short of the compulsory interchange of Negro and white students between distant communities." Gross relies heavily on upgrading mostly Negro schools, but to mitigate the hurts of de facto segregation he intends to amplify the city's "open enrollment" plan by permitting children of all races "free choice" to enter underused schools throughout the city...