Word: headway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secret Service officials made no headway yesterday in the investigation of pamphlets urging the assassination of President Johnson. The pamphlets, found in Wakefield on Thursday, were signed by an organization called the Harvard Council for Restoring U.S. Democracy...
...social and welfare programs (abolition of the poll tax, free night schools for illiterates, free textbooks for children, doubling the capacity of charity hospitals), "many people think that Roosevelt became interested in social security because he needed something to build a backfire against some of the headway Huey Long was making." Now, added Russell, "we've not only done most of what my father advocated, but we've gone beyond...
...Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson: "The Senate's current sentiment is not so much disquiet as uncertainty. We all want to support the President, and we're going to support the President, but we don't see much headway. Where does it end? We don't know. That's disturbing and somewhat distressing...
...eight weeks this summer, Head Start will try to make some headway against the sad fact that too many children are not emotionally, psychologically or physically ready to bridge the gap between crowded, repressive homes, where they are told to shut up, and the public school, where they are asked to open up and learn. The project puts kids of four, five, and six into "child development centers," where under close personal attention they will be encouraged by simple successes to avoid the spiral of failure that often starts with school's first day. They will have physical examinations...
...power. This will be an accomplishment for me. Tuy Hoa is the capital of the province and, therefore, must be the showplace. We can show the people in the villages and hamlets what the government can do and will do for them. It is slow, but we are making headway, as the concepts are filtering out to the countryside...