Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since even big Hovercraft will rise only a few feet above the water, they are bound to have trouble with waves. But the designers are not much worried. Most steep waves are low enough, they say, to be passed over easily. High waves are usually long and gradual; they can be surmounted like a series of hills. Hovercraft can be designed with a seaworthy hull. In the worst storms they could drop down into the water and ride out the storm like any other vessel...
...haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite of gradual reforms, it is still worse to steal a dog (18 months) than to attack a neighbor (one year...
...dead; it is only seen to be more evolutionary, just as the German nation ultimately emerged out of the North German customs union. And even such an ardent supranationalist as Monnet is now inclined to believe that a European federation, if it comes, will spring from a gradual change in the habits, tastes and prejudices of Europe's peoples. It no longer takes the huffing of a Stalin or the threats of a Khrushchev to make Western Europeans unite naturally...
Union of South Africa's 9,600,000 blacks will get what, before later additions, amounts to only 13% of the land, and far from the best land at that. And for all the glowing promises about a gradual "creative withdrawal" of white leadership, the promised Bantu rights are largely illusory in their own reserves, and nonexistent outside of them in the places where Bantus continue to work...
...Gradual European disarmament would start, synchronized with and dependent upon political progress. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. would limit their forces to 2,500,000 men apiece...