Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heated words, all three powers seemed to be reaching the stage where what united them was more important than what divided them. The making of a likely compromise lies in Greece's abandoning its demand for an immediate plebiscite in Cyprus in return for a British promise of gradual self-government for Cypriots...
...white man's demand for the sea otter had all but exterminated the Indian's main trading staple. Gone with the sea otter were prosperity and the passion for the potlatch. The gradual loss of ritual meaning stultified Northwest Indian art, turned its craftsmen into little more than manufacturers of tourist curios...
...predecessor, Pierre Mendès-France. At the end of three days' debating-joined in for the first time since he left office by Assemblyman Mendès-France himself-France's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved the government proposal to grant Tunisia internal self-government in gradual stages over the next 20 years. Even the Communists did an unexpected turnabout, tossing their 98 Assembly votes in on the government side and leaving only the extreme right in opposition. The vote: 540 for Tunisian home rule, 43 against...
...York City took one more step in its gradual abandonment of the policy of automatic promotions for public-school pupils no matter what their marks. Last week it announced that it would hold back 11,709 out of 448,000 elementary-school students-a jump of nearly 6,000 over...
...bill still faced a hard floor fight. But it got a helping hand from Dwight Eisenhower, who traveled to New York for an appeal to some 1,400 newspaper executives. Said the President: "To abandon our program for the gradual reduction of unjustifiable trade barriers . . . would mean a retreat to economic nationalism and isolationism. It would constitute a serious setback to our hopes for global peace...