Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disgraceful lack of conviction which the Church of England recently exhibited in its shilly-shallying treatment of the question of the existence of demons. It is only to God's certified earthly representative and interpreter-the Holy Roman Catholic Church-that we can look for theological truth and progress. "If you want the dope, ask the Pope...
Even a U.S. effort to make a little progress toward peace ran into a squall. Over the course of months, the U.S. had patiently managed to get the Russians to agree to hold an East-West scientists' conference on nuclear-test detection. Time: this week. Place: Geneva. But last week, in a surprise note phrased with deliberate ambiguity, the Russians threatened to boycott the conference unless the U.S. agreed in advance that the meeting's aim is a nuclear-test...
...cannot appeal for a defiance of Moslems in a way that a homogeneous state such as Israel can. Chamoun stands instead for that Lebanese tradition that turned its divisions to another sort of strength, the tradition of religious tolerance and political balance that built up commercial prosperity and cultural progress for Christians and Moslems alike. Chosen President of his country by the tradition that assigns that office to a Roman Catholic of the Maronite sect, Chamoun had to beware of turning Lebanon's internal struggle into a religious war between Christians and Moslem Arabs bent on making Lebanon...
...Swarm. Nasser, replacing Red influence with his own, has made progress in preventing the Syrians from slipping farther into the Soviet orbit, but the socalled "northern region" of the U.A.R. remains infiltrated by Communists to an alarming degree. An estimated 1,000 Soviet technicians, military advisers and embassy personnel are stationed in Syria; the area is aswarm with "technical" missions of bridge builders, oil surveyors and "fertilizer experts." Syria is dependent on Russia for $170 million of its $600 million development program...
...first he estimated that he could bring the biographies up to the class of 1800 in his lifetime, then revised his hopes downward to the classes of the Revolution. Now, at 55, he figures to hymn the sons of Harvard through 1765, the year of the Stamp Act. Progress so far: seven more volumes and part of the eighth, extending Sibley's sketches to the class...