Word: proceeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next twenty-seven minutes proceed much like the first, except that remarks like "Whadja think they were rowin 'at?" replace discussions of Crane Brinton and similar workaday topics among the shopkeepers...
Classic Action. In late November 1943, Burke's Little Beavers were refueling in Hathorn Sound when the call came to proceed "at 30 knots" (top speed) and intercept a Japanese force heading for Buka Island, off Bougainville's northern tip and 239 nautical miles away. Burke reported: "Proceeding at 31 knots." An hour later Admiral Halsey received Burke's latest position, along with word that the Little Beavers were still "making 31 knots." The next dispatch Burke received from Halsey was addressed to "31-Knot Burke." Burke had won his name...
Arleigh Burke knows only one way to meet such problems: proceed at 31 knots, all day and, if necessary, every...
...pleading for my state because we have had little trouble with integration but for the Deep South where there is a truly serious problem," McKeldin stated. The country must realize that the Civil War destroyed the South's social system, and proceed with the necessary caution, he added. Germany could quickly recover from the two World Wars because it only suffered economic destruction, but Southerners have to adapt themselves to a new way of life, McKeldin said...
...M.I.T.'s Brown. M.I.T.'s Killian had an even more provocative suggestion: unfettered academic freedom for a small, experimental group of hand-picked freshmen, "a complete tutorial system, in which the boys are allowed to develop under the direction of a volunteer group of faculty members, to proceed without requirements to attend classes, and be expected at the end to meet the requirements for graduation." Said Killian: "Their motivations would be to solve complicated problems and to satisfy their intellectual curiosity, rather than to complete courses of instruction, go to class or get good grades...