Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Daley, master of the paraphrase, who also said, "Progress is our most impotent project...
...shooting-and the shouting-casualties were minimal in comparison with those suffered during the June 1967 hostilities. But the prospects for peace remained dim. All the efforts of the peacemakers, including the U.N. and the Big Four (the United States, the U.S.S.R., Britain and France), produced little progress. Neither Israel nor Egypt, the major antagonists, displayed any interest in compromise. On the contrary, both were intent on expanding the scale of their attacks. The pattern was clear: strike and counterstrike, with each major blow more vicious than the last...
...suggesting that they would cooperate with a government of Socialists and Free Democrats to reduce political tensions in Europe. The implication, of course, is that Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats, who have ruled the Federal Republic alone or in coalition since its founding in 1949, are blocking progress along that line...
...hard to remember H. G. Wells except as a caricature. He looms as a kind of cartoon figurehead on the prow of the 20th century-plump and cheerful, goggle-eyed with confidence, breasting a sea labeled Progress...
...want to give the impression that Cuba is without economic problems. There are serious problems, in labor productivity, in making investments pay, in earning enough foreign exchange, problems of inefficient in public administration. But, the progress that has been made towards equality and the commitment to what seems to me a more humane relation of man to production make Cuba a very exciting case study of the possibilities for a radical transformation of a poor society...