Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats turned a brave face to their changed situation. "Our primary issue is the country's welfare, and we are happy that through the course of events some of the issues, which once seemed so important, are now in the process of disappearing." said Florida's George Smathers, chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee. But the shift of issues was plainly forcing the Democrats toward a change in campaign strategy. With most of the steam gone from some of their liveliest stumping topics, they began heading back to the course steered all along by Senate Majority Leader...
...with Russia and Egypt-exchanges from which all parties emerged somewhat soiled. After Ike's speech the U.S. again stood clearly before the world, not as a spokesman for the Middle Eastern status quo, good or bad, but as a power devoted to orderly international evolution. In the process, the half-convincing Soviet picture of the U.S. and Britain as an "aggressor" in the Middle East was destroyed, and the General Assembly diverted from sterile argument to the more positive task of trying to find a remedy for the conditions that had prompted the landings in Lebanon and Jordan...
Nationalist Chinese forces, fearful of an impending attack on the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, promptly went onto the alert; in Washington the Department of State protested that Peking was "raising the specter of war." And in the process, Khrushchev's longstanding campaign to persuade the world that the Communist nations are just one big nest of peace lovers suffered a sharp setback...
Another significant principle is regimentation. In illustration, Hunt stated that no Russian children may write left-handed. "The educational process is largely regurgitative," he added, "for there are no controversial issuse...
Because the new Honors program is specifically designed "to improve the quality of the educational process," said Pusey, "it has seemed to us appropriate . . . to devote the Procter and Gamble gift to the development of this program...