Word: proceed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular opinion since the February election. Attlee had little hope of substantially increasing his majority and the Conservatives had little confidence that they could upset Labor. The word around Margate was that the election would be "soon, but not yet." Meanwhile, a middleaged, well-tailored Labor Party would proceed with caution...
...sell to the highest bidder, then makes the highest bid himself. The elders agree to the coup, provided he will take two cousins into the business as balance wheels. The three of them-headstrong Stuart, flamboyant Raoul, a promoter and organizer, and cautious David, a slick man with figures-proceed to gobble small powder companies by the dozens and build Baron into a giant U.S. powder trust...
...content themselves with blowing reveille in the morning and going away. At either five or six a.m., depending on local whim, they bugle their first notes of hail to the new morning. They do this in pairs, generally consisting of one accomplished bugler and one tyro. They then proceed, for precisely an hour, to bugle a nicely calculated discord with the tyro burbling and burping perhaps half a beat behind the master bugler. You get used to it and after awhile you come to think of them as friends, too -not the ones you take into eternity, but as friends...
...distinction was more apparent than real. Sensible mobilization -even a large-scale one-had to be orderly, and therefore gradual. Just as a new automobile begins on the drawing board, progresses through the ordering of materials and dies before assembly lines can be set up, so mobilization had to proceed by degrees. First, military needs had to be restudied and clearly stated-what Korea needed, what was necessary to put out brush fires in other places, what would be required in case of all-out war; then orders had to go out to industry to provide the arms and equipment...
...reported . . . there is a surplus of jobless Puerto Ricans in New York. So we proceed to fly several thousand more from Puerto Rico to Michigan, to harvest the sugar-beet crop for sugar which might better have been made from Puerto Rican cane in the first place...