Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life of luxurious discontent into a chaos caused by the abdication of the French and a vying among the Moroccans themselves, some to retain their feudal fiefs, others to spread violence born of ignorance, a few to seek a difficult adjustment between ancient ways, present misery and future progress. Glowed one Moroccan: "The Sultan's exile was a great thing. We've achieved a political and national consciousness we weren't able to build in 40 years." But Morocco, unlike Tunisia, has few modern institutions of government, and Mohammed V, whose skill and devotion as a political...
...final days of the foreign ministers' conference, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov disposed brusquely of any illusion that the Russians might make concessions in the only area where the West had any real hope of progress. Every Western proposal for improved East-West contacts was either "inadmissible" or "interference" with Russia's internal affairs. "We will not grant freedom of propaganda calling for an atomic attack," he snapped, or for importing "all kinds of scum of society thrown out by the peoples of the countries of socialism and people's democracy...
...Four issued a two-sentence communique that mentioned no progress and did not schedule any future meeting. The West also issued its own communique for the ears of the Germans, expressing their sympathy with the "sense of cruel disappointment to the German people, East and West," and Dulles dispatched a private letter to Chancellor Adenauer pledging the U.S. to continue its efforts to reunite Germany. Geneva II was over...
...those who successfully complete the eight week editorial competition make such sensational progress; some have ended their careers as critics, humorists, and even as authors...
Albert B. Levin '56, President of the Student Council, said he was "not satisfied with the progress of the committee." Levin added, however, that the Council would probably leave it to the House Committees to appoint a new Food Committee or take any other action...