Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout all the negotiations, there has been an East-West consensus that disarmament, being begun in an atmosphere of mutual distrust, must proceed by stages. Each stage would have to be completed to the satisfaction of all participants, before any further progress could be made. The lesson of Yalta has been well learned, perhaps too well for the summit conference to have had much effect on East-West relations...
...sure, all worthwhile plays from any period embody ideas, but writers like Brecht and Genet seem to start not with characters caught in a human predicament but with abstractions such as, in Brecht's case, the evils of capitalism. They then proceed to illustrate their philosophy with a plot and characters chosen on the basis of utility to the ideas under discussion...
...terms of the award, as stipulated in 1722 by Thomas Hollis, a London merchant, are that the candidates be "pious young students devoted to the work of the Ministry of the Gospel of Christ Jesus but who cannot comfortably proceed...
Identification did not always proceed smoothly. Cambridge police Sgt. Frederick G. Clancy, for instance, claimed to have arrested one defendant who was actually booked by the Metropolitan District Commission police. The charges against most of those arrested were "disturbing the peace" and "participating in a riot...
...were most other Senators, but the helter-skelter attacks on the Middle East resolution continued, ranging from Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse's legalistic pedantry ("I am waiting for the opposition point of view to provide some answers before I proceed to rebuttal and surrebuttal and rebuttal of the surrebuttal") to Indiana Republican William Jennet's naked cynicism ("Here is the Walter Mitty dream plan for an easy, effortless world"). It remained for two Democrats, one seeking a drastic change in the resolution and the other making an eloquent plea for its adoption without amendment, to flag down...