Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future. Americans have never quite shared the traditional notion that prying into tomorrow is suspect if not downright dangerous-the sort of feeling that made Dante consign soothsayers to the fourth chasm of the Inferno. On the contrary, the U.S. readily accepted the fact that modern science established progress as a faith and the future as an earthly Eden. Yet recently, the American passion for the future has taken a new turn. Leaving Utopians and science-fiction writers far behind, a growing number of professionals have made prophecy a serious and highly organized enterprise...
...their launching spot, the Communists picked a remote region of Thailand that is not only backward economically (annual income is well below the $100 national average) but harbors people who are ethnically closer to the Laotians than to the Thais. Many village youths, impatient with government promises of progress and eager for what they fancy will be adventure, have been lured into the Phu Pan hills to join Communist-led bands...
...assault, he spoke daily with officials of the hospital in Cuenca where the victims were being treated, and with the American Embassy in Quito. Every morning he connected the home phones of the Nortons and Paynters into his 4000-mile radio hookup, and they were able to follow the progress of the victims as if they were in the neighborhood hospital...
...Jacobs was cited on the floor of the House of Representatives for making an important contribution to the Alliance for Progress. Jacobs is proud of the citation and seems to enjoy the publicity. But the public recognition can't distract him from his devotion to radio. He was the kind of boy who built crystal sets out of oatmeal boxes and rejoiced when be picked up a station in Pittsburgh. Regardless of what time he goes to bed, Jacobs does not need an alarm clock to wake himself up at 6:30 a.m. "I get on the radio...
...last-minute efforts to avert a crippling country-wide railroad strike, persuaded the railwaymen's union to retreat from demands for a much higher wage increase and settle for the government's ceiling of 3.5%. With that, the Prime Minister not only reinforced Britain's gradual progress in strengthening the pound but demonstrated again that he is willing to take politically unpleasant measures when necessary...