Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knox, read to him from the Reader's Digest. Mamie Eisenhower's bedside visits became longer and more frequent. The First Lady took her lunch in the President's room, and read selected news clips-mostly editorial comment about his illness. He was informed on the progress of the World Series, but showed little interest...
Clearing Landy and bestowing his belated commission, the Secretary said: "I could not ignore one of the fundamental principles on which our American way of life is based, and that is the opportunity of each individual to progress and succeed on his own merit...
...magistrate demanded $4,000,000 cash and $4,000,000 in sureties. Dalmia was released next day after putting up $3,000,000 himself, plus an other $1,000,000 in sureties offered by two relatives. As Dalmia went home, Premier Nehru held a press conference to discuss the progress of India's socialism. "The rich tend to fade out - a good thing," he remarked cheerily...
...Suburbia has introduced its concept of success into the very center of church life . . . The task of the churches as witnesses to Christ's lordship . . . has been submerged . . . The test of every parish enterprise is whether it will bring monetary and numerical progress...
...freedom but denies any function to authority save that which is temporary, remedial-and for others. It has made 'authoritarian' a bad word in the semantics of our day. It has proliferated committees in defense of every freedom, but none to uphold authority. It has identified social progress only with the expansion of liberties and the severing of authority's bonds. Basically and most dangerously, it is egocentric, as all obsessions are, in its refusal to acknowledge any authority, whether...