Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks at the Commodore Hotel had dragged on since noon with no visible progress, and as the clock struck midnight. New York's newspaper strike slipped into its fourth month. Then, with surprising suddenness, the deadlock was broken...
...senior has been selected as the NSA representative for the United States to tour Latin America in order to inspect the progress of a recent campaign to eliminate illiteracy...
...election, when a priest called Bosch a "Marxist-Leninist." he became so inflamed that he withdrew completely from the campaign-only to return to the race a few days later. Periodically, he has gone on verbal rampages, lashing out at his country's rich, criticizing the Alliance for Progress, and denouncing a big contract recently signed by Standard Oil of New Jersey and the provisional government that he succeeds...
Pickering's progress was smooth and steady. B.S., M.S., Ph.D.-he got all the requisite degrees. He stayed on in Pasadena to join the Caltech faculty, get married to a pretty Pomona girl named Muriel Bowler and conduct cosmic ray studies under Millikan. In 1944, when JPL missiles and rockets had become sophisticated enough to require a cargo of accurate telemetering equipment, Pickering was the inevitable choice to supervise the work; he was an acknowledged expert in the electronics art of long-distance measurement and control...
...Methodist bishop ordained in America, who gloriously related his own determined fall from the faith of his fathers in Up from Methodism,* went on with equal verve to chronicle underworld doings and undoings (The Gangs of New York, The Barbary Coast), the U.S. fascination with gambling (Sucker's Progress), and a history of prohibition (The Great Illusion); after a long illness; in Manhattan...