Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team usually comes on first, beginning its match at about 9 a.m., followed by the "C" team at 11. The majority of the "C" squad are new players, gathering experience for a gradual climb to the "A" team...
...lift-off seemed slow and laborious to viewers, there was good reason. Apollo and its two-stage launch rocket weighed a staggering 1.3 million lbs , only slightly less than the 1.6 million-lb. thrust of the Saturn 1B's first stage. As a result, acceleration was gradual; Astronauts Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham were subjected to only a fraction of the oppressive G-forces experienced on earlier flights by Mercury and Gemini crews...
What, in turn, will this produce in the way of results and consequences? Since I am not trying to avoid difficult questions, I will admit that the results may not be entirely pleasant. Perhaps exclusion of CIA personnel might mean a gradual cutting off of federal funds for the EARC, or the rise of barriers to Harvard faculty desiring to enter government service, or a deficiency in the ability of "analysts" and others to correctly determine foreign policy. I hope I have accurately anticipated your worst fears, for to me, at least, none of these would be particularly distressing...
...first quarter of 1969, the combination of the Administration's three-month-old income tax surcharge, higher state and local taxes and another increase in Social Security payments will really begin to hurt family pocketbooks. The result may well be a cut in consumer spending and a gradual easing of consumer price increases to a manageable level of 3% to 3.5% a year...
...them take the step. They become so disgusted, so repulsed by the repressive and racist system that they make the complete break. They become committed radicals. For some, the march on the Pentagon did the trick. For others, it was Chicago. For some of us, it was a gradual series of things. But for many, it hasn't come yet. They still sit back, worry about their grades, talk about how bad the system is and how against the war they are. Many of them belong to SDS and are the ones who help give SDS the cliquish and bombastic...