Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Return Visit. Afterward, in a bland communique, the two Presidents hailed the nuclear test ban as "a significant initial step in lessening international tension," called for "further progress" in "reducing the danger of war," and expressed hope for an expansion of economic, cultural and scientific exchanges between the U.S. and Yugoslavia. Tito thanked the U.S. for some $2.5 billion in military and economic aid since his 1948 break with Stalin, and for its help in the recent Skoplje earthquake. To house 10,000 of the 100,000 people left homeless by the quake, Kennedy announced that the U.S. would also...
Home can be equally pointed on domestic issues, of which his foes say he knows nothing. Every step to make Britain more competitive and prosperous, said Home not long ago, has "an instant effect on our ability to guide events. Once more I make a plea for wealth -which is one of the foundations of influence...
...pain it has caused, the Caribbean flare-up of dengue has hadsome worthwhile effects. It has spurred authorities in both Jamaica and Puerto Rico to step up their neglected anti-mosquito spraying. And Congress has appropriated $3,000,000 as a starter on a $45 million campaign to wipe out Aëdes aegypti completely...
...Room Nineteen is one of the bleakest stories about a woman ever written. It takes the reader over 38 blunt, brutal pages through the life-and death by gas-of Susan Rawlings. She is a career woman who has married one of her own emancipated kind -a successful journalist. Step by step, she withdraws from her husband, her children, and finally the world itself. There are no hysterics or overt scenes of disorder or despair. She simply rents a shabby hotel room and secretly goes there certain days in every week as if to meet a lover, actually...
...passed a law against polygamy," Mme. Nhu continued, "but it wasn't enough to pass laws. I knew that the men would try, at their first opportunity, to get rid of these laws and that women had to find some way of protecting themselves. So the next step was to organize a paramilitary force of Vietnamese women. Now there are 200,000 women with military training and I have seen young men begging the girls to teach them...