Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China-Viet Nam War wilted like a frostbitten blossom last week. China's 100,000 or so infantry and armored troops arrested their languid advance 15 to 20 miles inside the Viet Nam border, wheeled, and began a gradual, piecemeal withdrawal. Vietnamese artillery and front-line units of the 70,000-man-strong border defense force put on a show of hot pursuit but coolly refrained from any real, obstructive attack. Judging from the ferocity of each side's victory claims, it seemed safe to conclude that neither side had won-or lost...
Walker: No, I really don't. This would be a very dangerous step for the Taiwanese, particularly given their heavy reliance on the U.S. for aid. I think we will see a gradual rapprochement--very long-term, much longer term than Teng has pronounced--between the Chinese and Taiwan, plus continued American support of Taiwan, if not in troops at least in military defensive supplies. We will also see pressure from the American government on the People's Republic of China, to take a gradual approach to Taiwanese relations, and not to aggravate the situation...
...story can have the crushing gravity of a collapsing star. His sentences are frequently dense with logic and his points aphoristic: "The progress of human knowledge was a gradual renunciation of the simplicity of the world." Lem's own worlds are complex, twittering word machines ingeniously wired to philosophy, probability theory, cybernetics and literary conventions, which he parodies brilliantly. Unlike most science-fiction writers, he animates his creatures with lively explanations, as in the Cartesian send-up from The Cyberiad: "Mymosh, thus booted, went flying into the nearby puddle, where his chlorides and iodides mingled with the water...
...central committee appears confident that no important churches will quit the W.C.C. in protest over its politicized approach. The greater danger is not a walkout but a gradual erosion of interest by disaffected members in the West...
Even after "Vietnamization"-the gradual replacement of U.S. troops, described by one respondent as the "U.S. Dollar and Vietnamese Blood Sharing Plan"-the repeated pledge of U.S. help seems to have dulled Saigon's comprehension of how perilous its military situation was. Thanks to a congressional reduction in military aid from a requested $1.6 billion to $700 million, Vietnamese troops in early 1975 were down to 200 M-16 rounds per man and ten 105-mm artillery rounds per month, the Rand report says. Fuel shortages in Saigon forced ambulances to be towed around four...