Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rely on guns alone. Still again, the answer is no. From our Honolulu meeting, from the clear pledge which joins us with our allies in Saigon, there has emerged a common dedication to the peaceful progress of the people of Viet Nam. The pledge of Honolulu will be kept, and the pledge of Baltimore stands open-to help the men of the North when they have the wisdom to be ready...
...Moscow for talks with the Kremlin's duumvirate, Aleksei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev. In three days of conferences, he won a Soviet pledge to consider larger purchases in Britain and a promise that Premier Kosygin would soon pay him an official visit. Though Wilson could report no progress toward settling the Viet Nam war, the fact that he sent his disarmament minister to seek out Hanoi's top man in Moscow would help silence Labor's antiwar clique, which accuses him of not doing enough to halt the conflict...
...Henry F. Dobyns, one of the Cornell research team leaders, describing the report's findings, said that in the field of community development "results are normally computed over the course of decades ... these Volunteers produced measurable results in two years. Some would consider this progress incredible...
...image, and secured adoption of Madison Park as the site for a new campus-type high school. None of these moves would have been possible during the turbulent rule of Chairman Hicks, whose obsession with the shibboleth of the neighborhood school blinded her to almost all channels of progress...
...succeeding where others have failed so miserably. The answer seems to be that he is not tied down to any limiting political ideology. As a result, he possesses a rare degree of flexibility. In a city whose views on education have become as polarized as those of Boston, progress depends on the ability to compromise, and this in turn depends on a nondoctrinaire approach...