Word: headway
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...Hopeless Fight. Sixty years old and weary, Hilaly reconsidered his position after four months in office. His attempt to clean up Egyptian politics seemed almost hopeless. The courts were jammed with tax-evasion cases. The battle to win sovereignty of the Sudan for King Farouk had made little headway, despite endless talks with the British. On top of all of this, it now seemed to Hilaly that his monarch, on whom he had counted, was weakening...
...Mission. From here on, the critical struggle is for the allegiance of the uncommitted 149. Moreover, some of the 885 more or less committed delegates may be swayed from one side to the other, especially toward whatever side seems to be making headway among...
TIME, April 28, stated that all Jerusalem, old and new, is a "strangled city," that both sections have suffered an economic relapse since their separation, and that Communism, "directed from Haifa in Israel (where it is legal)," is making headway in Jerusalem...
...Harvard Dean was presented the Chapin Medal at the Society's annual meeting, Referring to the "overwhelming burden of mental diseases" as one of the nation's unsolved health problems, Simmons declared that "little or no headway is bring made by following the present nebulous channels of fragmentary research...
Meanwhile, reports from Okeefenokee Swamp indicate that the creature who could prove to be the political surprise of the year may go on a stomping tour throughout the country. As advance propaganda, manager Walt Kelly sent the above, promising others when the movement gains headway...