Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sakharov's 10,000-word essay, entitled "Thoughts on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom," begins with two principles that the author considers axiomatic: that ."the division of mankind threatens it with destruction," and that "intellectual freedom is essential to human society." He then catalogues the clear and present dangers to physical survival: thermonuclear war, hunger, police dictatorship and atmospheric pollution. The threats to intellectual survival, he says, are the propaganda of mass culture, spreading bureaucracy and, again, dictatorship. The world's only hope in overcoming these menaces, he says, lies in a rapprochement between socialist and capitalist...
Even when Heath attacked Wilson, he ran into trouble. Addressing a Conservative rally at Wembley last week, he called Wilson's record "the Rake's Progress" and his economic forecast "hooey" and "complacent nonsense." The British are not used to such harsh, direct attacks on their politicians, and Heath's blast prompted that unorthodox but stoutly Tory peer Lord Boothby to come to Wilson's defense. Boothby rose in the House of Lords and, in ironic tones, took note of Wilson's ability to recover. "The Prime Minister may not walk on the water today...
...seizing of the Pueblo prompted a report depicting North Korea as a nation devoted to peace and progress, while South Korea, which has "lived in the American style since 1953," was shown rife with corruption, unemployment and prostitution. On another news show, 'a commentator contemptuously suggested that to discourage bombing, the Viet Cong should put U.S. prisoners in factories and villages-because "Americans have a great deal of humanity for themselves...
Although delegations from Biafra and Nigeria met Saturday, there was no indication that progress was made on the question of relief measures...
...Expedition made relatively little progress during its last few weeks of spring travel. The soft ice slowed the dog sleds down considerably, and unfavorable ice drifting occasionally pushed them farther south than they could sled north. One sled was nearly lost when a recently refrozen "ice lead" or channel broke under the sled's weight. Frequent pressure ridges (the ice rubble, sometimes 80 feet high, that results from two large ice floes' collision) also slowed them down...