Word: proceeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Dulles decided to 1) refrain from denouncing the Russian backout threat, and 2) send U.S. experts to Geneva anyway, leaving it up to Moscow to break the engagement. Announced Dulles, at a special White House press conference: "As far as we are concerned, we expect the conference to proceed, and our experts will continue on their way." At week's end Russian experts were on their...
From maps of the sky, with sky coordinates, the students proceed as the ancients did to mapping the earth, and they learn how a spherical surface is translated onto a flat piece of oak tag. Large wall maps are one tangible result of this project, maps accurate to a degree that would please even Frederick Merk...
...dialogue is steeped in hilarious vocal nuance. Both have fine ears for inflections of speech, an unerring instinct for the telling mannerisms, whether of a Chicago sharpie, a Virginia gentleman, or a Brooklyn butcher. Their most extraordinary act is to ask an audience for two lines of dialogue, then proceed to improvise a scene on the spot, using one line as the start and the other line as the end. Furthermore, they will produce the dialogue in any literary style the audience suggests-Proust or Erskine Caldwell, Li'l Abner or Samuel Beckett. (A Faulknerian bit by Elaine...
...pilots' demand that Western's soon-to-arrive Lockheed Electra turboprops carry three pilots instead of two (TIME, May 5). In settlement that is important to whole industry, pilots agreed to put off debate until 60 days before jets arrive, and then to fly them while negotiations proceed...
...Justice Department does not know whether it will proceed with a civil suit to recover some of the $53.6 million in federal funds spent for the vaccine, because it is still not sure the price was too high. It noted that the five companies twice cut prices voluntarily, when the vaccine was in short supply. What the department objects to is that the price cuts were always identical...