Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nine years had passed since the U.S. Supreme Court's historic school-desegregation decision. To some, the mere fact that now all 50 states had integrated schools might seem reasonable progress. But not to Negroes in the late spring...
...cold war, President Kennedy felt, was a stalemate. He sensed a deepening international discouragement about the possibility that real progress toward a settlement would ever be made. Accordingly, several months ago, he began thinking about a major foreign policy speech that would be "positive." Last week, while receiving an honorary doctor of civil law degree at Washington's American University, he delivered that speech. In it, he announced that
...trip is actually part of a wider, more complex problem. Premier Constantine Karamanlis, 56, is a tough, staunchly antiCommunist, pro-NATO politician who in his eight years in office (the longest tenure for any Greek prime minister) has given his country stable government and a considerable measure of economic progress. But leftists and liberals attack him for allegedly having rigged the 1961 elections, which returned him to power for a fourth term, and for keeping about 1,000 political prisoners jailed who were arrested more than 15 years ago during the country's bitter and victorious war with...
Premier-designate Aldo Moro's Christian Democrats, having learned painfully from the April results that it does not pay to peddle anti-Communism softly, waged a tough campaign against "Khrushchev's false smiles." They could also point to Sicily's significant economic progress under their administration...
...confronted with financial or professional pressures, they can spend time wondering about themselves. They exist in a community of intellectual superiors; upperclassmen, professors, men who have written good books; and they begin to wonder whether there is anything they can possibly achieve. Their questions grow increasingly insistent as they progress towards graduation and the choice of a career. Some people are temporarily paralyzed by the discordance they sense between themselves and the community around them. If they cannot amass all the available information, are they capable of learning anything...