Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the effort to make the classics acceptable, humble Chinese were getting a look at 18 of Mao's own classic poems, all set out in a new poetry magazine. "There is nothing outstanding about them," said Mao modestly, "but since you consider the poems publishable, let us proceed...
Every year on the Monday of Commencement Week, a select group of men in academic robes assembles outside of Harvard Hall and, led by a fife and drum corps, proceed to march across the Yard and into Sanders Theatre. If this group is smaller or less imposing than the main Commencement procession, it is certainly no less distinctive, for it is the procession of the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society to its annual literary meeting...
...effect, that the Business School is the best in the country is not necessarily to say that it is good enough. American business in the next 25 years is going to face new and perplexing problems that focus upon its responsibilities in a world society, and if we now proceed to question whether the Business School is providing a framework adequate to meeting these new problems it is not because we think the Business School is bad (that would indeed be foolish), but because it could be so much better...
...debate waned, Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey put a parliamentary inquiry to Vice President Richard Nixon: "Under what rule," Humphrey asked the chair, "is the Senate presently proceeding?" Then came the clay's floor-shaking surprise. Said Dick Nixon: "It is the opinion of the chair that there can be no question but that the majority . . . under the Constitution has the power to determine the rules . . . The right of a current majority ... to adopt its own rules, stemming as it does from the Constitution itself, cannot be restricted or limited by rules adopted by the Senate...
Speaking to an overflow crowd of about 1400 in Sanders Theatre, Gaitskell stressed the need for increased Anglo-American cooperation in this area of the world. He conceded that it might be necessary "for the United States to proceed without close and obvious cooperation with Britain and France," but asked for some consultation now with a gradual increase in the future...