Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some said that the final return was the most difficult experience of their lives. "There I had been," one recounted, "having my past mistakes hashed over and analyzed and tinkered with and scrutinized. My present progress was reviewed and supervised and picked apart and weighted with tremendous significance. One extra conversation in a day, one extra act of participation, everything I did was seen by my doctor as progression or regression. The psychology of all my actions took pre-eminence over any moral value that could be imputed to them...
Just to show you that Joan is not unique, here are typical samples of progress in words per minute by Reading Dynamics graduates in the Boston and Providence Area...
...opinion that if these techniques were instituted in the public and private schools of our country, it would be the greatest single step which we could take in educational progress...
...weary battalions of Marines bellying through the chunks of rubble, progress was slow and costly in lives. Time after time, whole companies were pinned down against their rubble shields by a single, well-placed machine-gunner. A persistent drizzle socked in their air cover for most of the week. Even when air support came in, Communist artillery made the most of the low-flying weather: in 446 sorties by U.S. helicopters, Communist guns scored strikes against no fewer than 60. Said Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., commander of 1 Corps forces: "The gods of war were in their favor...
...also a Saturday, but a sunny morning, when Mrs. Ludmila Davis' secretary phoned from Stanford Medical Center: "This place is a mess, and we're doing a heart transplant!" The "mess" meant that surgery was even busier than usual, with 15 operations scheduled; four were still in progress when Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. began the four-part series to remove the donor's heart and transplant one of her kidneys, and implant her heart in Mike Kasperak's chest...