Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DARLING. This mordant satire of a play-girl's progress from obscurity to celebrity owes much to Julie Christie's dazzling presence in the leading role...
...Foreign Ministers at their year-end council meeting: "Ask yourself what your national interests are in the Viet Nam conflict. Ask yourself what were our interests in Manchuria in 1931 and in Ethiopia in 1936. Ask yourself what were your national interests as Hitler made his aggressive progress. In those days, we as governments did not recognize our national interests-and look at the price we paid...
...traffic jams have elicited no examples of Christmas spirit from the participants. But somehow the city keeps her head. She looks with grudging admiration at Prudential Center, like the split level of a nouveau riche nephew, but stays home for the holidays. The stark slab may mean money and progress and all those other nasty things, but the important thing now is the old house, the Christmas wreaths looking dignified on Louisburg Square, the candles at the State House...
...selective service board of appeals in California has refused to reverse the 1-A classification of a Harvard undergraduate, despite a letter from the University informing the board that the student is carrying a full course load and making normal progress...
This is not the first case in which a local board has confused the 12 unit course load with a "half-time" course load and has classified a student 1-A. But in past cases a letter from the University has been sufficient evidence of "normal progress" to reverse the decision and secure deferment on appeal...