Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event, the Vice President reported, his recent visit to South Viet Nam left him convinced that the allies are making "substantial progress." Said he: "Things are better in Viet Nam, militarily, than even a few months ago. Though we must be prepared for military setbacks and disappointments ahead, I believe we have reason for measured encouragement." Humphrey's message was aimed especially at his old friends in Americans for Democratic Action-an organization that the Vice President helped found-who loudly oppose the war and have denounced him as a liberal-turned-warmonger. In his press club speech, Humphrey...
...preliminary results of the study are revolutionary because they indicate that contraception cannot curb the population rate in societies with high mortality, and that it becomes really effective only in societies of very low mortality. Thus Heer concludes that "progress in curbing the population explosion may best be brought about through further reduction in mortality," rather than increased contraception...
Europe's progress toward economic unity, halted for eight months by France's boycott of the top councils of the Common Market, got back on the tracks last week. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville returned to Common Market headquarters in Brussels and once more sat down with the ministerial envoys of West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg in the mahogany-paneled Salle d'Europe...
...races-the Polynesian Maori, who came to New Zealand from their legendary oceanic island homeland in the 14th century, and the Scotch-English, who arrived in the 19th with the usual guns, Bibles and technological superiority. This, however, is no sad, simple story of savage innocence overwhelmed by progress. Miss Ashton-Warner grinds no stone axes against the bad white man. She does something a great deal more complicated and valuable; she sets in motion a sort of dance of language and imagery in which the childhood of the sophisticated race meets the stubborn memories of the aborigines...
...second joint negotiating session at the Federal mediator's office yesterday afternoon wound up with spokesmen for both sides in the Boston newspaper strike saying that they thought some progress had been made...