Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...existence, a matter clearly not negotiable at a conference table between the Israelis and the Arabs. But the matter of recovering the occupied territories is negotiable-theoretically. In the discussions with Jarring, the Israelis so far refuse to give up any of the occupied territories without guarantees of progress toward a full Middle East settlement. The Arabs in turn so far refuse to talk about a se tlement until the Israelis return the Arab lands...
...times last week it seemed that the area's fourth war in two decades was al ready in progress. Israeli and Jordanian artillery opened up on two successive days. For the first time, Israelis also hit at the 15,000 Iraqi troops stationed in Jordan, who recently started firing their long-range, 122-mm. Russian heavy guns into Israel. Israeli jets flashed across the cease-fire lines three times to bomb the area around the Jordanian town of Irbid and hammer at the artillery positions of the 421st Iraqi battalion. Deep inside Jordan, Israeli commandos blew up two vital...
...ruling Greek junta. Two months ago, acting on a Scandinavian complaint that the Athens regime had unjustly suspended constitutional rights in Greece and was permitting the torture of prisoners, the Human Rights Commission of the Council of Europe, an 18-nation organization created to foster social and economic progress, called a special closed session to hear testimony. The Greek government complied by sending several heavily guarded ex-prisoners to the hearings in Strasbourg -but only after ordering them to deny all allegations of torture...
Then there are the songs. "The Parish Boy's Progress" has nothing to sing about, but that has not stopped Composer-Lyricist Lionel Bart. Starveling orphans chant about Food, Glorious Food. Oliver asks Where Is Love? Fagin warbles, "Can a fellow be a villain all his life?" Well done? Indeed. Appropriate? In doubt. Putting trust in sounds and forms, Bart has obscured the message of "that great Christian," as Dostoevsky once called Dickens. The "demd horrid grind" is gone. In its place is solid, canny entertainment. Purists and sociologists will object as loudly as Christmas audiences will applaud...
Harding floated into the Ohio senate, then the U.S. Senate, borne on waves of alliteration: "Progress is not proclamation nor palaver," he orated when delivering the nominating speech for Taft in 1912. "It is not pretence nor play on prejudice." He based his own progress on one cardinal rule: Don't "offend anybody." Half awesomely, he was described as "the greatest exponent of standpatism the state ever...