Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace . . . & Progress." In short, the President refused to play the Kelly-McCormack brand of politics. Perhaps he thought his way was better politics. Bob Hannegan gulped, threw away the resolution and announced that he and the executive committee stood "100% behind the President." The armed forces promised to help some; instead of taking 25% of the available legitimate meat they would take only 10%. Ed Kelly and the other committeemen passed a statement of policy: "Peace, production and progress-these are the watchwords of the Democratic Party for 1946 . . . under the inspired leadership of Harry Truman." Glumly they went home...
Last fortnight Washington Post Editor Herbert Elliston returned to the U.S. and reported on what he had seen of the startling lack of U.S. progress in reviving Germany. The Post followed up with an editorial on the same theme...
...beautifully keen emotional sensibility and such steely, abundant natural vigor as to afford that extra half-ounce of energy which compels immediate assent. . . . 'Unfaltering! Unflagging!'-these are the epithets that his performance most obviously requires. Other actors are in this or that phase of Lear's progress from worldly to spiritual dominion the peers of Mr. Olivier, but no actor that we can recall has matched the creative stamina which enables Mr. Olivier to rise equal to the demands of every phase...
...fourth group will consider the language requirements for veterans. A further report will be made on the progress of the tutorial system...
...seriously causes no end of trouble to himself, his employers, his family, his chums and his ladyfriends. As played by Actor Harrison and manipulated by writers-directors-producers Frank Launder and Sydney Gilliat (one of Mr. Rank's brighter young production teams), the rake's fast, downhill progress is topnotch fun with a pleasant British accent. The fun holds up, and so does the picture, until all the actors suddenly wipe the smiles off their faces at the end and admit that carefree living doesn't really...