Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Always Before Him. For two racking years, Lacerda has tormented Goulart at every step, and Goulart in turn has done his best to destroy, or at least neutralize, his enemy. Yet Lacerda is still governor, still trying to drive Goulart out of office, and still gathering strength for his own run at the presidency in 1965. One Brazilian Deputy told Congress: "The President cannot sleep for seeing Carlos Lacerda in front...
...that is perceptible. But at the same time, a dance should hold more subtlety than the audience can quite see. The tension of discovering more, of penetrating the arcane, creates the experience of excitement. Here again Miss Primus' class was more successful, since her teaching added each new complication step by step, until they became literally over-whelming...
...might avoid the real problem (why did they lie?) as lesser people than she avoid so much by not seeing the Negro. And she might avoid it indefinitely if whatever she were running from in the North were sufficiently terrible, end up lying blatantly to herself and only step up the volume of romantic postcards sent home about the eufferin' and the new-found dignity--all set to turn cynical when expedient...
Goldberg told his Sanders audience that his proposal "would not be easy of achievement." He emphasized that it was a limited step, and that his court would not deal with economic problems or questions of disarmament. "It would assure world justice, not world peace; but we would at the same time be taking a real step toward peace," he claimed...
...submitting smug little essays to the Catholic press-most notably the Tiny Messenger and Catholic Woman. His subjects run to problems like dirty movies and where the angels go in the wintertime; his most masterly creation is Father Danny, "a lean, clear-eyed man, with a spring in his step and a great fund of natural humility." Bert is so good at this kind of pap, in fact, that he decides to make a career of it; soon his essays, his Father Danny stories and occasional poems make the name Flax a byword among Catholic ladies...