Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made in another White House conference to review the severe money restrictions which the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve had clamped on the economy. And at long last, the President was prevailed upon to break the news blackout that he himself had imposed on the state and progress of American missilery. With that done, the new urgency was written in the skies in the rocket's red glare. It was a week that made missile history, and a week that pointed up the successful investment of vast sums of money (see chart) in the missile program since...
...Nixon. At Administration conferences Nixon has urged 1) that President Eisenhower move sharply to re-emphasize his national leadership, and 2) that the Administration go farther toward explaining the true state of the nation's security to the people, by relaxing the secrecy curbs on reports of missile progress. From his travels afield Nixon, along with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, reported that the President still had a vast fund of popularity and respect-but that he was not making the most of it. Most of all, Nixon sensed that the rest of the U.S. was ready to join...
...through the steel city's uncertain October weather to campaign for reelection. Like the shrewd old political boss that he is, "King David" stopped at a funeral, hopped up Eleventh Ward followers to turn out the vote, popped up at rallies of the United Steelworkers and the Serbian Progressive Club. Like the latter-day apostle of civic progress that he has become, he never missed a chance to mention his "better Pittsburgh," with its smog-free air, rising skyscrapers, parks, bridges and elevated highways. At 68, running for a fourth term, crusty, cold-eyed Dave Lawrence...
...determined not so much by personal ability as by quotas, e.g., five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew. In twelve years the council has never defeated a Lawrence proposal. His Republican opposition is weak and disorganized; Pittsburgh's top Republican businessmen like Lawrence's record of civic progress, have given precious little support to his opponent in next week's election, former Common Pleas Judge John Drew...
Five years ago Huang began teaching a distinguished pupil, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. For her, Huang prescribed the classical program, began with trees, then rocks. After two years she had mastered the basic strokes and was ready for color, now specializes in painting bamboo and pines. "She has made great progress." beams Huang. "Her strokes are very forceful, even stronger than...