Word: headway
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...soap and water. Believing that cleanliness is next to godliness, he has been cutting cakes of soap from the relief packages into small pieces and leading his charges down the embankment from the church to the Han, where, he says, he is making slow but recognizable headway in teaching them the blessings of a daily bath...
...snowbunny is a discouraged slatser, an aborted expert, a perennial beginner. The bunnies never remain on the slopes long enough to make any headway; but are driven indoors by ten o'clock, where they are content to watch the schusser from plush leather chairs in the base camp. Bunnies are the last to leave the ski lodge and the first to return, just in time for a change and five o'clock cocktails...
...steam-driven towboat Kokoda, running nearly 160 miles ahead of the diesel-driven Helena in a 1,100-mile race up the Mississippi from New Orleans to St. Louis, got stuck in the ice ten miles above Cairo, Ill., barely managed to get up enough headway to keep its lead...
...share-your-shower-with-a-Mount-Holyoke-girl campaign gained rapid headway at Harvard over the weekend, as a steady stream of Dartmouth-game dates poured into Cambridge with sorrowful tales of the Connecticut Valley water shortage...
...gold-medal table wines, furthermore, are sold under the name of the grape out of which they are made, as Cabernet rather than claret, Riesling rather than Rhine wine. Pinot rather than Chablis or Burgundy, Semillon rather than Sauterne. American wine names are beginning to make some real headway...