Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fitzsimons Army Hospital. An idle glassene oxygen tent was placed outside the door m the flower-banked corridor. Inside the room, the world's most important hospital patient rested comfortably and listened to the music. A week after his heart attack President Eisenhower was making steady progress toward recovery...
...President's path of progress was measured in small but significant steps. After four days, the use of narcotics was dropped (although Ike continued to receive anticoagulants, as a precaution against blood clots, and Seconal, a sedative to help him rest). He was gradually "weaned" from the oxygen tent. The periods of dozing slacked off, and the President began to take an alert interest in the outside world. When Press Secretary James Hagerty popped in for a brief visit, Ike asked him how the affairs of the nation were going. "Just fine, Mr. President," said Hagerty. "Everything is fine...
...hasn't had as much work this year as Simourian and Eikenberry," Jordan said yesterday, "and it will take time to make this up. But Dexter is coming along very nicely," he continued, "we are pleased with his progress...
...matter of whether she would be Lady Brett Ashley or "Shirley," in short, if she were not so awfully dumb, then we would be more likely to share her heart throbs and such. Marjorie's final conventional resting place may very well be morally admirable, but her literary progress there...
Following Gunther, Cloete flew to West Africa. But where Gunther highlights its progress, Cloete probes deeper and finds that everywhere the savage past impinges on the present. Between 1945 and 1948, Nigerian leopard-men clawed 196 people to death in a single district. White officials recently arrived at a chieftain's funeral to find the coffin unscrewed and the African guests engaged in eating the corpse (necrophagy is still common in Africa...