Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico City. At the Chamber of Deputies the President launched into his yearly report on the state of Mexico. By custom established in his four previous reports, the President spoke in his flat voice for more than three hours. But from time to time he dropped hard facts of progress that stood out like milestones. Items...
...hear Hagen's progress report, delegates strained for their notebooks when he started to tick off key facts. One engrossed note taker: Russia's Vladimir Kotelnikov, who headed a 16-man delegation. Kotelnikov shrugged off questions about Russia's progress in moon making: "They will launch one when they are ready...
Whenever he stepped into the White House Cabinet Room last week, the President of the U.S. ran spang up against a sight that made him wince. Around the room were stretched easeled posters on which the progress or lack of progress of his 1957 legislative program had been dutifully drawn in grease pencil. The pencil marks were hardly encouraging; Dwight Eisenhower's associates got the impression of a man hurt and angry...
...paid by Tapline and Iraq Petroleum Co. pipelines across it. (Because the Syrian army sabotaged the I.P.C. pipeline at the time of the Suez invasion, oil is flowing through it at only 40% of its pre-Suez rate.) For all her chronic political chaos, Syria has made notable economic progress since World War II. Irrigation schemes, mostly private, have more than doubled wheat production since 1938, and the cotton crop, Syria's main export, has tripled since...
Nothing is as it seems. He admires the West and progress. But the West's emissaries-an international aid mission-are uncomprehending and horrified by his tribe's backwardness, illiteracy and impractical preoccupation with poetry; civilization's missionaries depart, leaving behind two artificially inseminated ewes and predicting bigger and better herds, which the Falqani do not want. Throughout his country, Ghazan seems to see only a bizarre blend of ancient Eastern evils and too-hasty Westernization-hunger and corruption, opium smokers in grey flannel suits, profiteering officials who "displayed the refrigerator in their drawing room like...