Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work toward free elections in Germany and to stay in Berlin. But it offered some new variations on those themes: 1) postponement of elections pending efforts of an East-West German commission to get together, 2) some sort of gradual inspected disarmament in Germany if the commission makes progress toward unification, and 3) the possibility of adding
...much more than mellow charm, mastery of detail. One major ingredient was getting the backing of the U.S.-and this week he would take to television to outline the Geneva prospects. Another was getting the measure of the opponent: next week's Geneva meeting could bring real progress, said he, "should the Soviet Union demonstrate an honest desire to negotiate...
...West and East German governments in a proportion, based on population, of 25 West Germans to ten East Germans. The committee would arrange increasing commercial exchanges-more trains, buses, mail, books, newspapers-culminating in adoption of a common currency. After a period of "at least three years," during which progress could be measured and trust justified, the committee would prepare legislation for free, all-German elections...
Eisenhower also said that he hopes for progress toward settling East-West differences at the big power foreign ministers' conference opening next week in Geneva. "If anything does develop that enlarges the hope for decreasing world tensions," he said, then "a summit meeting would become almost a foregone conclusion...
...managers and patrons were taken completely off guard. In New York City two women entered while a revenue agent was scooping up cash from the registers. They paid him $500 for treatments, thinking that he was an attendant. In Cleveland, revenuers quietly permitted the attendants to complete treatments in progress before padlocking a Slenderella salon...