Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cigarette smoking a little over 30 years to become the generally accepted habit that it is today. It has taken science about 20 years to correlate, effectively, lung cancer with cigarette smoking. Alcohol, however, has had a rougher time, with Prohibition and Carry Nation standing in the road of progress. The offspring of its success have been thousands of suffering alcoholics. If marijuana is legalized, it will be interesting to see what vicious effects it will have on our already precarious society by the year 2000. Perhaps everyone will be so high that they won't care to come...
...sudden centrist; able to seek a Democratic coalition potentially as broad as F.D.R.'s. He is doing so, moreover, without any disavowal of the libertarian lodestar that led him into politics in the first place. "The nation needs to be calmed and unified," he says. "It needs steady social progress with a minimum of disorder. I offer leadership based not just on idealism but on a pragmatic approach to government. I offer the capacity to blend the different factors of American life into a national mosaic...
Sert blamed this country's outmoded zoning laws and federal legislation for hindering progress in design of low-cost living units. "The United States is one of the most backward countries in the world in low-cost housing," he said...
Wampus was followed by Eleazar, class of 1679. Disease killed Eleazar before graduation, but he left as proof of his academic progress an elegiac poem in Latin and Greek on the death of the Rev. Thomas Thacher...
Although no official statement has yet been made on the progress of negotiations between the students and the administration, several reliable sources here indicate that Columbia offered to let all the demonstrators off with mere warnings. The students, however, insist on no punishment...