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Word: progressives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vision of a balanced budget, Butler had been frustrated, tormented. Last week he put his feelings on the public record. "We are going to be in a tough situation in 1960," he told a TV interviewer. "Quite a few Democrats around the country are unhappy about the progress that has been made in the first session [of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Turning the Flank | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Said Gore: The public announcements of the U.S., British and Soviet test-ban negotiators had led people in the U.S. and around the world to suppose that a lot of progress had been made. In fact, there had been no meaningful progress and no real Soviet concessions on the tough issues: the nature, methods and control of an inspection system. Meanwhile, argued Gore, the Soviet Union had made propaganda profits out of the conference by advertising the mere preliminaries of a test-ban agreement as substantial Soviet concessions. The U.S., said Gore, should 1) adopt firm, realistic goals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Other Geneva | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Switching to another mood, Khrushchev boasted that "in five to seven years we will be stronger than you. We developed the hydrogen bomb before you. Our rockets carry warheads many times larger than yours." Later, he mawkishly spoke of the man responsible for all this progress, the same man that he himself denounced three years ago in his dramatic, weepy oration to the 20th Party Congress as a maniac who had deported, tortured and killed by the millions. Describing Stalin's last days, in the first such account ever given a Westerner, Khrushchev told Harriman that for three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Horse's Mouth | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Last year the surgical world perked up its ears when an American orthopedic surgeon told of a plastic glue that foams and hardens after being poured into the hollow channels of broken or diseased bones, seems to have no toxic effects. Last week the medical world was evaluating a progress report by Dr. Michael P. Mandarino of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital that the plastic glue was 94% successful in the treatment of 250 cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Glue for Broken Bones | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...industry was obviously in a strong position to weather a short strike. Realizing this, Big Labor was ready to trim its package-wage demands from a reported 15? to 20? an hour to about a dime. But there was little apparent progress in negotiations last week. Company bargainers held fast to their no-raise stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Steeling for the Showdown | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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