Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perhaps the Man of the Year award should have been given to the preceding and older generation. It is their progress that has enabled us "under 25s" to read more, see more, and understand more. By observing the failures, successes and trials of our predecessors, we have come to a conclusion: Whatever we're going to do, we have to do it NOW. We can't wait, and neither can the rest of the world...
...Detroit executive suite. Having spent $60 million on restyling, beleaguered President Roy Abernethy, 60, all but abandoned the head office for the hustings to drum up dealer interest in the new models. In Detroit, A.M.C. Chairman and No. 1 Stockholder Robert B. Evans, 60, settled back to watch the progress on his own pledge to "turn this company around...
...meantime, the only course for the U.S. seems to be to help narrow the gap in what limited ways it can, but keep up the competitive heat. Real progress often grows out of crises...
...might fail to notice Céline's didactic intentions. Courtial is Yongkind, grown up and equipped with a degree from the polytechnic, but the same optimistic cretin. In the person of Courtial, Celine pours all the vitriol of his prose on an age that believed science and progress would confer inestimable benefits upon mankind. Courtial's windy rhetoric on the subject of these benefits is mocked by the hiss of hot gases from his chronically punctured blimp. By the time the first great technological war breaks out, the point of Journey to the End of the Night...
...President could have allayed liberals' fears by spelling out unambiguously plans for more civil rights and antipoverty legislation, and by giving Congress notice of his intention to achieve progress at home despite the expenses of war. But the question or Presidential will remained unanswered: can Johnson provide the leadership necessary to pr4eserve and expand the Great Society in the politically lean years as well as the fat ones...