Word: proceeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the Walls. Soviet War Correspondent V. Poltoratsky saw Breslau and wrote: "The assault detachments never proceed along the streets. That would be quite impossible. They blast corridors through the centers of rows of houses. A shell fired point-blank at a wall makes a doorway for the gun that fired it. The gun is dragged through and the gunners send another shell through the next wall...
...Thin Man Goes Home (M.G.M.) and Having Wonderful Crime (RKO-Radio) both proceed on the safe assumption that laughs and murders combined are usually better boxoffice than either commodity marketed separately...
...November 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power. Said Lenin, at the second All-Russian Congress of the Soviets: "We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist order." The most stubborn fact in modern history had turned up: in a country continental in size, one class (the proletariat) had repudiated democracy and, guided by a monolithic party, rushed in the name of Communism toward the totalitarian state...
...Cabinet last week went Foreign Minister Orlando Peluffo. In as Acting Foreign Minister came César Ameghino, considered a temporary appointee. In eliminating Peluffo, a stiff-necked nationalist, Perón had eliminated his last important opponent in the Cabinet. The wily Vice President could now proceed with his program of stabilizing Argentina's Government, improving her foreign relations and perhaps one day achieving U.S. recognition...
Servers and Services. The Senate committee, chairmaned by Florida's New-Dealing Pepper, proposed to do something to better the nation's health. As an immediate measure to help meet present critical manpower shortages, it urged that the Army Rehabilitation Program proceed at once to make the 750,000 remaining remediable 4-Fs fit for military duty. To improve the health of the nation as a whole, the committee offered a mild, sensible-sounding program to fill such lacks as these...