Word: headway
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...reluctant to fire them. But like many superior specialists, McCarthy has been guilty of the sin of pride. In his deliberate challenge to President Eisenhower, McCarthy made a false political assumption. Unquestionably he is convinced that he can take over the leadership of a conservative faction and perhaps make headway with a third party. But McCarthy has shown no talent whatever for party leadership...
...challenged by several men who felt the Republicans had lately made signicant headway against early Democratic popularity...
...campaign organization many old G.O.P. professionals whose skill would be helpful, but whose reputations might be fatal. Case truthfully tells the voters that he had no part in making this splattered record, but the Democrats, using the guilt-by-association argument so familiar to U.S. politics, are making some headway with the Republican record of corruption...
...Meet the Press, A.F.L. President George Meany exposed a bland and impervious hide to four eager newsmen. Even as determined and tenacious a questioner as Lawrence Spivak was unable to make any headway, and when the New York Times's Stanley Levy suggested that Meany had worked with Governor Thomas E. Dewey to enforce the licensing of stevedores on Manhattan's odorous docks, Meany snapped: "I guess you don't read your own newspapers. I publicly opposed licensing...
Another week of busy marching and jockeying resulted in little net headway for the McCarthy v. Army investigation. But the footwork was typically intense...