Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshall may not want, for tactical reasons, to bring suit now-but when local N.A.A.C.P. people urge him, he finds it bitterly hard to procrastinate, lest those men and women who sign the petitions feel that the N.A.A.C.P. has let them down. In other areas, he might want to proceed more vigorously, but clients, because of fear, do not come forward. Marshall does not blame them. He remembers the time when he scroonched down in his B. & O. pants, and the time on the Mississippi railroad platform when he wrapped his constitutional rights in Cellophane...
Stassen proposed that less sensitive data be exchanged, and verified by an operative network of controls, before the U.S. and the Russians proceed. "Arrangements will be made for the posting of on-the-spot observers with operating land, sea and air forces, at their supporting installations, and at key locations as necessary . . . Aerial reconnaissance will be conducted by each inspecting country on an unrestricted but monitored basis . . . Each inspecting country will utilize its own aircraft . . . Liaison personnel of the country being inspected will be aboard...
...Philippine waters: 48 in Manila Bay, eleven in Cebu. Japan sent a salvage task force of 149 craft to do the job, a small but symbolic part of Japan's reparation payment to the Philippines. While the two nations continue to haggle over reparations, the salvage work will proceed, and its cost, about $6,500,000, will be credited to Japan's total debt. The scrap iron will be turned over to the Philippines...
...France's best lawyers, was at his most skillful. France "does not intend to accede to any threat, intimidation or terrorism," said Faure ringingly, and added in the next breath that France was nevertheless "attached to a policy of evolution and reform." He promised that he would not "proceed by surprise or sensation," but, he added, he did not intend "to tie my hands or renounce my prerogatives of executive in advance." Their suspicions assuaged by these dexterous promises, the Deputies heard their tail-coated Speaker tell them to leave "discreetly" and with much pumping of hands and saying...
...believed then, and do still, that the collapse of the London Economic Conference had two tragic results. First, it greatly retarded the logical economic recovery of all nations. Secondly, it played into the hands of such dictator nations as Germany, Japan and Italy . . . From then on they could proceed hopefully: on the military side, to rearm in comparative safety, on the economic side, to build their self-sufficiency walls in preparation for war. The conference was the first, and really the last opportunity to check these movements toward conflict...