Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visions. His vivid image of a peaceful revolution of hope animated his most active and effective role in the politics of this hemisphere. Knowing that a free society which cannot help the many who are poor, cannot save the few who are rich, he created the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps. He led the way to freer international trade for the United States and a greater economic unity for Europe. And in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, he concluded an historic treaty that remits the slow, agonizing enervation...
President Browster of Yale: This is dreadful. We must resolve that one demented act shall not unhinge the good will, the stability, and the continuity essential to our nation's peace and progress. To this end we of course give President Johnson our full and prayerful support...
...relative rather than the death of a chief of state. The faces I have seen in the Yard this afternoon reflected stunned grief, which we all share. John F. Kennedy was a devoted and loyal son of Harvard, who as a private citizen made the University's welfare and progress his deep concern...
...want to join civic clubs-and on rainy days fields as many as 500 telephone complaints from irate "subscribers" who simply cannot understand why delivery has been delayed. In increasing numbers, the giveaways break up the ads with news stories. But their editorial staffs vary widely. The San Francisco Progress, with a city distribution of 181,000-more than any of San Francisco's three big paid-circulation dailies -gets along fine with a staff of two. Joan Kinney in Livermore, on the other hand, pays the salaries of 13 editorial hands...
...denigrated as nothing more than commonplace knowledge that comes with age. His snobs, after all, only face the fact that, in age as in youth, life chooses our friends for us, and it is wise to make the best of them. But in reaching backward to follow their progress, O'Hara is able to dip into the sounds and sights and thoughts of four decades of American life. "The United States in this century is what I know," he explained not long ago, "the way people talked and thought and felt. I want to get it all down while...