Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Chalmers and Bruner stressed that more student pressure may be necessary to speed up plans for coed housing. They agreed that progress will come faster if different houses are allowed to move toward coeducation at their own paces...
Whisky and Progress. Lately Johnson has taken to saying privately that progress is like whisky: "It is good, but if you drink too much it comes up on you." He obviously believes that he gave the nation as much as it could hold for now. He is anguished that there has been no breakthrough in the Paris negotiations, but thinks he did all any President could to bring peace while defending U.S. interests...
...military duty, were being sold to rich men's sons instead of awarded on merit. Tri, an ear-nose-and-throat specialist and plastic surgeon who had been teaching at the National Medical School, accepted Huong's charge to clean up the scandal. He apparently was making progress. He had been threatened four times by telephone as well as in several unsigned letters...
...Great Tree. His open-door economic policies have brought relative progress to Liberia. Foreign investment now amounts to nearly $750 million-mostly in iron ore, rubber and commercial banking. Tubman checks economic performance continually: an old law still on the books has it that all government expenditures of more than $200 must be approved by the President, and the President spends hours every week poring over the ledgers. As a result, important government work tends to be held...
...What. Red Beard is an oriental Pilgrim's Progress. In 19th century Japan, an ambitious young doctor (Yuzo Kayama) pays a formal call on the director of a public-health clinic. There he is shocked to find that he has been given a post as a mere intern...