Word: progressing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Republic of South Africa last week as if he were the last surviving custodian of the white man's burden. At one stop, an enthusiastic crowd knocked him off the roof of a car, but Robert F. Kennedy hardly missed a comma. "I believe there will be progress," he exhorted the residents of Soweto, a black ghetto near Johannesburg. "Hate and bigotry will end in South Africa one day. I believe your children will have a better opportunity than you did." Unaccustomed to such solicitude from a white politician, the Sowetoans devoured Bobby's every word and seemed...
...want her to travel by car." At Lublin's Catholic University, the only one of its kind in Eastern Europe, the cardinal was even more emphatic. "Youth is struggling for truth," he said. "If this right is strangled, it will be the death of truth, of science, of progress...
Many of the doubts, though, were shared by Shadow Faculty members themselves. Some of them were frustrated by the slow progress of the weekly seminar meetings. They questioned whether it was worthwhile to devise an overall plan for elementary and secondary education -- and, given the divisions in the Shadow Faculty, whether it would even be possible to devise such a plan. Moreover they wondered what relation the whole effort had to their own research projects...
...become infinitely more complex, and no physician can provide all the benefits of modern medicine by himself. Like it or not, he is dependent upon others, and a laboratory error by a technician in a remote corner of the hospital may be as devastating to the patient's progress as an error in judgement on the part of the physician...
...week's end, nine men and women had died in fiery antigovernment, anti-American protests, leaving notes written in blood-even letters addressed to President Johnson. Replied the President in his Memorial Day address in Arlington (see THE NATION): "This quite unnecessary loss of life only obscures the progress that is being made toward a constitutional government...