Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence attempted to find the essence of an England that was fearfully "contemplating its own past and conscious of its threatened nature," Spender himself was fighting a political and intellectual conservatism that had bred a neurotic fear of change, fiercely inhibiting literary progress...
Many residents at last night's meeting said they feared that the police incursion into Columbia Point may have reversed the progress that the community has made in reducing the previously high crime rate. "Ever since the cops came in, vandalism has returned and there is lots of internal fighting," Govan said...
Cuba is now trading with every developed country in the world. Her credit rating is high. There has been far greater progress than in any Latin-American country in education, public health, and social services. The regime has never been more popular and it has a powerful military and police structure to back...
...Olympics championship contest in basketball is a further example of our unwillingness to recognize the progress of a competing country. Granted, the officiating at the conclusion of the game left much to be desired, but the Russians played us evenly throughout the contest. Interspersed with complaints about the officiating were proud boasts that "If we'd only had our good players like Walton there, we would have creamed them." My question is why people fail to notice and object to the ugly incentives the players qualified to participate in such a contest face. It is only a matter of pride...
...Israel, if it felt it was losing the ability to defend itself, might once again decide on a pre-emptive war. But in his conversations with Ford and Kissinger, which White House officials described as "reasonably successful," Rabin laid out some of his government's thoughts about making progress toward peace...