Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ideal. Making a point that he hammered again and again during his visit, Nixon said: "Material progress is important, but the very heart of the American ideal is that 'man does not live by bread alone.' Progress without freedom, to use a common expression, is like 'potatoes without fat.' There is nothing we want from any other people except the right to live in peace and friendship with them...
...very strong China. Ike has seen nothing to indicate that the Russians really do want a summit conference, but they are using the summit to split the Western powers. Still, he is willing to go to the summit, provided that the foreign ministers' meeting shows some progress; he would not go if he thought that his presence could be construed as abject surrender...
...Dessuky, principal of a boy's high school in Egypt, and Baruch Hadar, Israeli legal and economic advisor, spoke on Egyptian education and Israeli politics. Dessuky, commented that the growth of social consciousness in the nationalistic movements following the two world wars has resulted in new agencies for social progress and, since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952, a new era in educational advancements...
...Sosnowiec. where an International (Communist) Mine Workers' Congress was in progress, that Khrushchev hit his stride. There he promised: "Never, never, never will we launch a war against any country anywhere at any time." (He did not promise never, never, never to stay in lands that want to get rid of the Russians.) He continued in his cocky way: "I have told the Americans: 'You have no intercontinental missiles. You have missiles that can send up oranges. We have missiles that can send up tons. Imagine the kind of bombs that could be contained in our missiles...
Petronius' story follows the happenstance progress of three impure pilgrims: the freeloader Encolpius (whose name means, roughly, "the crotch''); the effeminate boy Giton. who is Encolpius' "brother" ("frater" to Romans had a double meaning of homosexuality); and Ascyltus. who lusts after Giton. With a straight face. Petronius defended the propriety of his romance...