Word: proceeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something beyond secession from the Union; [it] is secession from civilization." Last week Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus ordered certain public schools closed in answer to a Supreme Court ruling that Little Rock's Central High School must proceed immediately with its program of integration...
After that the war seemed remote for Indianapolis: the orders were to proceed alone from Guam to Leyte for training exercises. In the dark first moments of July 30, she was halfway to Leyte. With no warning cry from any lookout, there were two tremendous explosions on the starboard side. Precisely how many men the blasts killed will never be known. In about twelve minutes-at 0014-the Indianapolis sank, throwing some 850 officers and men into the water. They had life jackets and a few rafts, but no boats...
President Eisenhower's press conference last week was perhaps the least impressive in his more than five years in office. Asked about reports that he had told friends he thought desegregation should proceed more slowly, the President replied: "It might have been that I said something about slower, but I do believe that we should-because I do say, as I did yesterday or last week, we have got to have reason and sense and education . . . if this process is going to have any real acceptance...
Convinced, the 18-member Joint Committee unanimously voted out a $145 million authorization for a third plutonium reactor, to be built near the 14-year-old veteran at Hanford. Last week, in the teeth of President Eisenhower's letter declaring that "there can be no justifiable basis to proceed" until the Administration decides that the third reactor is needed, both the House and the Senate lopsidedly approved the Joint Committee's bill...
...general says he is afraid his army will disintegrate or that some of his troops will open fire if the entire column advances in one body . . . The general says he is willing to cooperate, but he wants you to proceed in small groups...