Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roughly speaking, the story is about a civic committee led by a master crook which is trying to bring about "progress." A mansion peopled by a trio of spinsters with highly suspect hobbies stands in the way of progress, and must, of course, be removed...
Taking on the Alliance for Progress, Goldwater ran down the list of Latin American countries where, he insisted, revolution and continued instability reflect Kennedy's failures. The Alliance, he said, has brought "no new unity, no true alliance and no real progress." The Administration has polished off Latin American problems-"as indeed the whole world's problems"-as "political sloganry. They are not solved; they are merely salved, by talk, talk, and more talk. Patch a crisis there; prescribe a pill somewhere else; make a concession here, there, the next place; promise, promise, promise; spend, spend, spend; elect...
Hand Pumps. But progress has finally come to the Yaak River Valley-and last week, amid modest ceremony, the inhabitants observed the first linking-in of the area's electric power line. The valley will never be the same again-a fact observed with pleasure by most, but with misgivings by some...
Negro parents have trouble controlling their children and keeping them in school. Because of skimpy education, Negroes have made small progress in the professions. In 1910, there were 3,400 Negro doctors in the U.S. In 1960, there were roughly...
...four children have given her a great deal of pleasure. "My elder daughter Le Thuy," Mme. Nhu gestured at the lovely seventeen-year-old who sat, poised and relaxed, across the room, "is not only a good deal taller than me--surely a sign of progress [In three inch heels Mme. Nhu stood under five feet]--but she will soon enter medical school in Vietnam. My other daughter [five years old] I expect will also have a career. But all my children shall do as they wish. I would have preferred Le Thuy to have been a lawyer...