Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peale's Progress...
Throughout all the negotiations, there has been an East-West consensus that disarmament, being begun in an atmosphere of mutual distrust, must proceed by stages. Each stage would have to be completed to the satisfaction of all participants, before any further progress could be made. The lesson of Yalta has been well learned, perhaps too well for the summit conference to have had much effect on East-West relations...
...signs of being accepted on its merits alone. If this reduction can be effected, it will represent a significant, thought not conclusive step forward. The actual achievement of any agreement with the Russians, will, moreover, signify a new atmosphere of harmony in which more gains can be made. Real progress can only come if the conventional arms reduction provides an inspection system that admits international observers to military posts...
...worth recalling the nature and circumstances of the incident. Dr. Oppenheimer was approached by a friend, Prof. Haakon Chevalier, while he was director of the atomic research program at Los Alamos, who suggested that it might be a good idea to keep our Russian allies abreast of the progress of the research. He volunteered to help transmit such information "informally." This proposal was summarily rejected by Dr. Oppenheimer on the ground that any such suggestion would have to be implemented through appropriate governmental channels...
Aside from the segregation conflict, the most important Constitutional controversy now in progress involves the question of determining Presidential disability. President Eisenhower has demonstrated as intense an interest in the question as he has shown for almost any other issue of his second term...