Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ranchers. Today this Massachusetts-sized land still confronts the problems of its progress. It cannot stand still. It has built homes for people from 80 different lands, coming, as Ben-Gurion once said, from several different centuries. Its new pioneer town, Elath on the Red Sea, had only 500 residents in 1955. now is a booming seaport of 4,000 frontiersmen-half of them fresh from Tunis and Morocco, and a thousand more from Hungary-building piers and unloading cargoes in the hot dry wind, living on tax-free double pay to encourage settlement. The Crusader city of Acre...
Censors & Cannibals. The zoo-page report noted that considerable physical progress had been made in Netherlands New Guinea, particularly in the field of public health. But it also painted an unattractive picture of arbitrary, old-fashioned colonial rule: "In the prison at Doom . . . Indonesian infiltrators were housed six or eight to a small cell." In all Netherlands New Guinea, added the report, no private newspapers are published, and such news as is distributed by the government is carefully censored...
...clandestine rebel radio seemed to confirm that some hard fighting was in progress, because it appealed: "Come to the Sierra Maestra, Cuban doctors. We need surgeons urgently. The enemy offensive has begun violently along a 200-kilometer front...
...report, are "at the highest point in many years." Said Leonard Tillotson Carney, newly elected President of the Mother Church (he was converted to Christian Science from the Congregational Church when his infant son was healed by a practitioner): "It is yielding to materiality that blocks our progress...
...Twain was dispatched on "The Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion" of 1867. The excursionists were a sobersided group of about 75, "chiefly composed of rusty old bachelors," bound first for Europe and then the Holy Land. Twain's task was to write dispatches on the pilgrims' progress. This is the first time "those wretched slangy letters," as he called them, have been put into book form...