Word: proceeded
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...heart of the book is the slow unraveling of the faceless patient's life, educed by morphine and haunted by scenes from Cairo nights when it was necessary "to proceed into the plot of the evening, while the human constellations whirled and skidded around you." That is very much how Ondaatje proceeds. One by one he introduces his characters, and slowly he unlocks their secrets, leading us through their lives as through the darkened corridors of a huge and secret house. Loves flicker, footsteps echo, lines of poetry recur. All four feel their way through darkness, by hand and memory...
Heinicke said that he is pleased the councilwill finally be able to proceed with its agenda...
However the committee and the City Council decide to proceed, cyclists and councillors agree that the net effect won't be Earth-shattering...
Rudolph Marcus, 69, Canadian-born researcher at the California Institute of Technology; his theoretical work, done mostly in the 1950s and '60s, describes how and why chemical reactions differ in the speed at which they proceed, based on mathematical analysis of how electrons move and atoms change their positions. His work, according to the citation, "has greatly stimulated experimental developments in chemistry...
...panel report, released to The Crimson yesterday, confirmed that ballots for this week's council social committee co-chair election were tampered with, though the report did not place blame for the discrepancies or offer recommendations on how the council should proceed...