Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge officials are talking to the University about the money, but it is too early to make any definite statement on progress of the talks, Frank said...
...asked him to write a chapter on the Irish for a book on New York's ethnic groups, Beyond the Melting Pot. With the same careful eye that he was later to focus on the Ne gro family, Moynihan surveyed his own brethren, and found that Irish progress in America by most standards has been slow and painful. "Paddy and Sambo are the same people," says Moynihan -both from rural, unschooled backgrounds, both shattered by urban experiences, both falling into patterns of drink and violence...
Frustration has sometimes seemed to exceed progress. Rockefeller's term started with a bitter aftertaste of Faubus' twelve-year reign. The Democratic legislature-there are only three Republicans, v. 132 Democrats, in the two houses-confirmed 93 of Faubus' lame-duck appointments to state agencies, then attempted to block Rockefeller's nominees. The Governor had to go to court to make good an appointment to the public service commission. Like Arkansas Razorbacks crunching opposition ball carriers, the legislators downed one Rockefeller proposal after another: an audit of the corruption-tainted highway department, reform of jury selection...
...wrap it up by Christmas," said a federal officer, conceding that the "police action," as Lagos refers to its battle against the secessionists, may be a prolonged affair. Meanwhile Gowon's troops seemed to be making slow but steady progress in pushing the Ibos back into their own territory...
...extrapolations tend toward euphoria, many of the humanities experts, in their cranky way, are not so sure. At least such is the drift of Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which devotes its special summer issue to the subject "Toward the Year 2000: Work in Progress." For, as the Academy's Commission on the Year 2000, headed by Columbia Sociologist Daniel Bell, points out, along with increased affluence, greater population density and vastly expanded scientific and medical wizardry, there will be a host of new hazards, pressures and tensions bearing in upon the American...