Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jungle Cruisers." The overall agreement was unprecedented, because for virtually the first time, local Negroes-even neighborhood militants-were represented directly in the six-week negotiations, telling the city's white leaders exactly what they wanted and needed. Even so, such progress may not be enough to defuse Newark. While last summer's riots were devastating the Negro neighborhoods, they were iust as disastrously poisoning some sections of the white community. In the city's blue-collar Italian wards, scores of whites are arming themselves-with scant discouragement from the police-and forming white vigilante gangs...
...CORRUPTION. "It hinders every im provement in society and the progress of the nation," said Thieu. "Its eradica tion is a very difficult task that re quires much courage, many efforts and patience, but I am determined to push vigorously the anticorruption program." Punishments, he said, would range from disciplinary measures all the way to imprisonment or even death...
...progress of the play is really the gradual zombification of Morley as physical debility betokens his psychic decay. He develops a limp, then cannot stand up at all as his arms and legs go rigid. Sitting mutely in a chair as if immobilized by a stroke, he seems to live only with his eyes, which roll in a fine frenzy as his latest financial coups are related to him by the omnipresent Spaatz. The time inevitably comes to get divorced for tax purposes, and then Morley kills himself-for tax purposes. In a final scene of immense sadness and gravity...
Turning to urban problems, Nixon emphasized that "order is essential to progress and to the preservation of freedom...
After graduation Del Rossi signed with the New York Yankees for a substantial bonus, becoming the first Harvard ball player in 32 years to sign a pro contract. However, he was not satisfied with his progress after two years playing in the Class AA Southern League. He returned to the Harvard Business School and graduated last year...