Word: progressing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the memoirs out of the way, MacArthur resumed his quiet, circumscribed routine. At 84, he was still a fine, bayonet-straight specimen of a soldier. Then, early in March, doctors at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital operated on him and removed his gall bladder. He appeared to progress fairly well after that, but soon he began to fail. For four weeks he fought tenaciously to live. Doctors performed two more major operations. It seemed that no ordinary man could withstand such punishment, but incredibly, MacArthur clung to life. Then at last he let go, drifted into a coma...
Blessed with excellent weather last fall, the heavyweights have already made some progress. "By the time of our fall race," Parker said, "we had three crews rowing as well and as fast as any one crew we've had in previous fall rowings...
Tanz's measured progress continued until he came to van Gogh's Self-portrait, 1889, oils, 65 x 54 cm., sometimes known as 'Vincent in the Flames'. The description in the catalogue read:' . . .Taut to the breaking point, it testifies to van Gogh's struggle to master his inward turmoil .... An expression of supreme equilibrium on the brink of the abyss...
...Impairing the act of state doctrine, said the opinion written by John Marshall Harlan, "would work serious inroads on the maximum effectiveness of United States diplomacy." And preserving the doctrine intact, even when an expropriation violates international law, will best serve "both the national interest and progress toward the goal of establishing the rule of law among nations...
...many people think of Hodgkin's disease as "a progressive condition leading inevitably to death," Stanford University's Dr. Henry S. Kaplan told the American Cancer Society. Worse yet, many doctors make what Dr. Kaplan considers a fundamental mistake: they give too small doses of radiation to patients in the early stages of the disease, thus giving it more chance to progress. Of all U.S. Hodgkin's patients, only about one-third live five years after the disease is diagnosed, largely because they get too little treatment...