Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canada was thus narrowly spared a continuing crisis. In the first hours after his defeat, Diefenbaker, a proud and contentious man, had shown a slow-motion reluctance to quit. Before long, every major newspaper in Canada, including the few that favored his reelection, urged him to step down. They knew his tenacity in coveting power: two months ago, three of his own Cabinet had left his discredited administration, unable to persuade him to step down. Instead, casting himself in the role of a northern Harry Truman, Diefenbaker had set out on the hustings again, hoping to revive the old magic...
Konrad Adenauer has so often changed his mind about retiring as West German Chancellor that his repeated private promise to step down next autumn was usually greeted with the cynical refrain that "fall will be a little late this year." But last week, on a nationwide German television hookup, der Alte at last stated publicly that he would step down "on schedule." Declared Adenauer: "I have often said that I will seek my retirement in October or November 1963. What I have declared will remain unchanged." Bonn politicians took heart. Not once in the program did he mention the word...
...even began naming non-Communist experts to key industrial jobs. "He who is not against us is with us," said Kadar in late 1961. Such relative leniency in a Communist state at last earned Kadar a measure of grudging acceptance from the population; fortnight ago he took his biggest step yet by releasing the last group of revolutionary leaders who were still in jail (although up to several hundred rank-and-file Freedom Fighters are still believed to be behind bars), and by setting the stage for the release of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty from his refuge in Budapest...
...important thing about On Revolution is that it is a long step forward in the agonizing reappraisal modern liberalism is making of itself and the various institutions it has always held sacred. Hannah Arendt has chosen to examine critically the act which has been the keystone of liberalism since Locke
...that right, and show little or no respect for either the social rules or the work program. The proposed rules change, then, is an attempt to make the freshmen and sophomores more aware of their responsibilities in the Radcliffe community and should by no means be considered a step backwards. Carelyn Fawcett...