Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee. Yet he was shocked to find that, once it had reached the floor, his fellow Senators demanded still further cuts. "Take out the tanks, take out the carriers, take out this, take out that," Stennis complained. "I just do not believe that it is the way to proceed...
...only the politicians who improve the world so gradually that nobody can see the improvement. The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into...
...lawyer, while in a Deep South Jail. Hanson, yearning for some legendary whorehouse and dominated unto middle-age by his Daddy, decides to accompany them to New Orleans. But camped out one night they are set upon by Mississippi rednecks and Hanson is bludgeoned to death. Billy and Wyatt proceed on to Mardi Gras, make a sentimental trip to the whorehouse, and drop acid with their hookers. But this is, as they say, unsatisfying; they leave New Orleans for some unknown destination. In the film's best sequence a pick-up truck overtakes them on a Louisiana highway, and some...
...prescribed by doctors are based largely on unquestioned assumptions. This is true not only of relatively new products, such as the cortisone group of hormones, but even of digitalis, the oldest and most effective medicine for the most common forms of heart disease. In most cases, the FDA will proceed slowly and cautiously, figuring that it may be wiser to leave a product on the market until its efficacy is definitely disproved by the panel...
...impossible to synthesize the cumulative effect of such a play. The Hostage usually seems to proceed, like a variety show, from one comedy bit to another. Then, suddenly, it will stop. Some of the two-dimensional characters we've been laughing at fade into the background while others blossom into real three-dimensional human beings. The result are often quite moving. When Leslie (in which role Michael Sacks is again perfectly cast--in his khaki he seems out of a World War II movie, an English Van Heflin both in costume and good spirits), the British soldier stops...