Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local Youth club meetings not only serve to facilitate communications between groups which may officially be isolated from each other, but also serve as a forum for progress reports. "We are an organization of organizers," one student Communist explained. In their bi-weekly sessions, the Communists discuss what innovations would advance the "movement" and "what groups are ready to take the next step." An example of this is the traveling representative who visits a number of universities in this area of the country and tries to initiate some kind of radical activity. A Party member from New York University said...
...prickly book that castigated the G.O.P.'s approach to the electorate for the past 50 years. Brooke's thesis was not so much that Republican proposals have been wrong, as that "we have often had no solutions at all. We give the appearance of being afraid of social progress. This is what has made us known as the cold party...
...ticket, which the Senator dismisses on the ground that he must first master his new job. Yet he is plainly on a path that goes beyond whatever personal summit he may reach. The achievements of Edward William Brooke will be as much a standard of a whole society's progress as they will be the measure of an individual who happens to be a Negro...
Weird and tragic turns of fate marked the fire's progress. Two men climbed a gum tree to escape deceptively low flames in the tinder-dry grass; the resinous tree erupted like a match, gluing their bodies to its trunk. In the coastal resort of Snug, villagers ran into the sea and watched neck deep as their town disappeared. An elderly man and his wife ran for their lives as the river of flame roared toward their house; the fire changed its course, and their bodies were found 100 yards from their untouched home. When the flames neared...
...heart disease are little understood, but one is especially mysterious: heart failure that strikes husky and seemingly healthy men and women in their prime, apparently without cause. Doctors, who now find the condition is by no means rare, say it is frightening to watch the often rapid, inexorable progress of the disease toward early death. They call it idiopathic cardiomyopathy (unexplained disease of the heart muscle), and treat it with drugs, which may be only briefly effective...