Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forces which have combined to become the Democratic Party are forces which by their very nature collide. It is a party of dreams on the one hand, and of reaction on the other. The party when it dreams has noble thoughts of shining cities, equal opportunities and social progress. The party when it governs is hamstrung by its reactionaries, who smash the dreams into tiny, unrecognizable pieces. The present majority party has failed to meet its responsibilities to American society because half of the party refuses to practice what the other half preaches...
After posting three bulletins on the gates of Paris' Cochin Hospital, the doctors decided that the patient was recovering so well from his prostate operation that no further progress reports were needed. Charles de Gaulle's surgeon called him "un homme formidable...
...Premier's progress as De Gaulle's deputy was intently regarded by French politicians. It is widely believed that if De Gaulle should decide not to run for re-election next year, he will designate Pompidou as his successor. Even if De Gaulle does run, as still seems likely, "Pompey," as Americans in Paris call him, is becoming more important in the De Gaulle administration, chiefly as a link between the austere, lofty leader and the French businessmen and small bourgeoisie...
...City's second World's Fair of the century opened with a splash. Water squirted, spurted, sprayed and gushed from the Fountain of the Planets and the Fountains of the Fairs, from the Astral, Solar and Lunar Fountains, the Fountain of the Continents and the Fountains of Progress; it rippled and trickled in numberless lakes, lagoons, canals and reflecting pools. And on opening day it dripped endlessly from the cold, grey clouds that dimmed the visibility of the helicopters and dampened the spirits of the groundlings...
Barnes suggested that future ecumenical progress would be more apparent in the realm of witness and service than in matters of faith and theology. Here, unity will be hard to find and "will be derived from shared Biblical study rather than from agreements on formulation of doctrine." But the path toward union is unpredictable, he added. "We must pray in faith that the Holy Spirit will intervene with power to confound our predictions based upon calculations of our own resources and efforts...