Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson last week addressed two appeals to the Kremlin for progress on arms controls, a subject he clearly holds vital to the peace effort of his last months as president...
...desperate gamble to draw allied troops away from the beleaguered U.S. Marine fortress at Khe Sanh. He still believes the onslaughts on Saigon are in the same pattern of desperation, even though Khe Sanh is now a largely forgotten sector. In a war that has defied every yardstick of progress, Westmoreland's measurements have diminished his estimates of his foe's capacities to the point of overoptimism...
...been on a never ending Freedom Ride in pursuit of meaningful progress for the poor and oppressed...
...slums. In a partially refurbished 117-year-old building that once housed the Astor Library, Papp is completing a successful first season of contemporary plays at the Public Theater, where tickets are only $2.50. This month he opened an experimental theater where budding playwrights can see their work in progress. Next year the complex will also include a 150-seat theater-in-the-round for coffeehouse productions on week nights and children's plays on weekends...
...referred to the atom bomb as "Mr. Big," or advocated its use anywhere. He conceded that he had been "overoptimistic" about the "timing" of events in the Viet Nam war, and promised not to get trapped into making such predictions again. But he stuck to his guns on the progress of the war. "We'll see who was overoptimistic about Viet Nam when the war is over," he insists. "If we win, I shall have been a lot more right than most people, despite my mistakes. If we lose, I shall have been wrong-dead wrong. The outcome will...