Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only two political issues remain outstanding, and neither is insurmountable: the nationality of the inspection post staffs, and the number of on-site inspections of suspicious events. In the first, progress nears as both sides have modified their conflicting all or nothing demands. In the second, the U.S. insists either on limiting the treaty to surface and under water tests or else on unlimited inspection rights, unacceptable to the Russians, who demanded a veto power. The eventual compromise will probably be a quota of on-site inspections, an idea first proposed by Prime Minister Macmillan...
Coach Floyd Wilson, although predicting that "we'll improve over last year," admits that this season's unit is "farther behind in progress as a team than any other squad I've ever had." Only one member of the starting five returns at the same position he played last winter, although four are tested competitors. Of the tenman varsity squad, three are seniors, two juniors, and the rest sophomores, giving Wilson one of the youngest teams in the East...
...there is no more honorable ambition one can entertain than a career in elective offices," McCormack told the Young Democrats. "And although I am a great believer in the two-party system," he continued, "I feel that the Republican Party is the party of status quo; the Democrats represent progress...
...example, since war is linked with force. U.S. folklore arbitrarily divorces the reality of power from the politics of peace. Yet, Hughes argues: "Power plus principles equals policy." Other "myths" Author Hughes finds damaging: the notion that a free society is intrinsically strong, a tyranny intrinsically weak; that economic progress assures political stability; that any division of nations is between good and evil...
...have been playing charades with ourselves since Camp David," he said, scoffing at the apparent need for an atmosphere of progress...