Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calling for a complete but gradual disarmament system, Sohn declared that "President Eisenhower seems to be moving in the right direction on disarmament, and I hope he continues to make the decisions...
...help the industry grow even faster, CAB has laid out a gradual, carefully charted course of expansion and competition. Since the big trunk lines no longer need coddling, CAB has cleared its docket of a dozen major decisions, some of which had been hanging fire for seven years. Recently, it approved a whole series of competitive new routes. T.W.A., Capital and Northwest got new, nonstop runs between New York and Chicago in competition with United and American; United got a nonstop Chicago-to-Seattle run in competition with Northwest, while Northwest in turn got a local nonstop Detroit...
...Administration should not, however, plan an immediate increase in the size of the College merely on the basis of the projected new House. Two new Houses would just barely handle the present overflow. Gradual expansion during the next few years is probably inevitable, but the College should never again be as crowded...
...hence for the entire weak Middle East. Washington pitched in to help keep negotiations alive and moving. After hard bargaining, Nasser, who then wore the title of Interior Minister, signed with Britain the agreement ending the long British occupation of the canal zone. (Under the agreement's gradual withdrawal clause, the British by last week had turned about half of the canal zone over to Egyptian control.) It was a momentous, street-filling, torchlight-parading triumph for the revolutionary regime, and it gave the Nasser junta fuel on which to travel for months to come. There was, however, grumbling...
Four-fifths of its 500,000 people speak Greek; most of the rest are Turks. The Greeks claim it (though they last possessed it in 323 B.C.); the Turks don't want the Greeks to have it; and the British are only willing to talk about gradual self-rule. Even before the three foreign ministers broke off in sharp disagreement last week, the debate was transferred violently to the streets...