Word: progress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout Paris, De Gaulle's direct appeal to the rebels (hinting of a quieter mediation already in progress) brought relief. It was a triumph, not of politics, but of pure personality that enabled him to make his offer; as always, he remained the man above party. In the coming elections, he said, he would "not disapprove" of any party's support, nor would he discourage opponents who "will make use of the liberty they accuse me of wanting to destroy." But his mission ruled out his taking any particular party's side. "This impartiality obliges...
...this point the German press joined in. Reporting the "antipathy of the majority of the British people," Hamburg's Die Welt declared: "This is disappointing to many of us who had expected more progress in friendship during the past few years. Now we know we were wrong." The Germans' sensitivity, in turn, stung the British. "What the hell can they expect?" asked one harassed British official. "Heuss was jolly lucky not to have anything thrown...
...decade of high-gear progress was proudly reported last week by the American Heart Association as it celebrated the tenth anniversary of its reorganization from a narrow-based group of medical specialists to a broad-based outfit with national public participation. In this period, said President Robert W. Wilkins of Boston at the commemorative meetings in San Francisco, surgery on the heart itself has leaped from a hesitant, tentative approach to one of great confidence: there is now nobody with acquired or congenital heart disease who cannot be considered as a prospect for surgery, and many cases can be helped...
Technical progress and fashion fads can lead to baldness in both men and women, reports London's erudite medical journal, the Lancet. One sure cause is a certain type of nylon hairbrush, and it took keen detective work by London Dermatologist Agnes Savill to find this out. A man of 27 went to her with a triangular bald spot, getting persistently bigger, on the side of his head. Dr. Savill found many short hairs of unequal length, some with frayed ends. Her conventional treatments-oil and massage-did no good, but when the patient switched to an old-fashioned...
...Yovicsin's coaching, the Crimson won three of its first six games until injuries cut it down in its last two contests of the year. Yovicsin was "pleased, although naturally not completely pleased. We hoped to have a winning season," he says, "but we are very happy with the progress the boys made...