Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour could no longer be a bland good-will mission in the manner of his round-the-world trip of 1953 or his visits to the Caribbean in 1955, the Far and Near East in 1956, Africa in 1957. The dividends instead would be the fair warning of Communist progress in Latin America and of the urgent need for U.S. attention, plus the admiration that Dick Nixon earned by his own show of calmness and courage...
...enter a "200" course merely to try his hand at it. His classmates, however, are graduates steeped in the discipline. The archetype of the perpetual graduate, the professional scholar with 8 or 9G after his name, emerges from the D-level of Widener at rare intervals to watch the progress of the seasons. After squinting in the sunshine, he returns to painstaking research into the use of umlaut verbs in the 13th century...
...highly reassuring to have TIME admit that integration has wholly failed in the North and that, once Northern people realize that fact, some possible progress may be expected...
...only has returning farm prosperity benefited virtually every Oskaloosa business (Lumber Dealer Jim Mathew figures his sales are up 50%, due largely to farmers fixing up the old home place or repairing the barn), but it has brought a flock of new civic improvements in progress, e.g., three new schools, a $200,000 bowling alley and amusement center. Two years ago Oskaloosa, hungry for an industry payroll to offset the setbacks to farming, almost landed an American Chain & Cable Co. plant, but at the last minute lost out. Putting its finger on the reason, the Iowa Development Commission said: "Poor...
...result of his boycott, an Assembly was elected without a single member of the opposition represented, and France was able to keep control of defense, finance, labor and education, as well as the High Commissioner's power to veto any legislation. Last year, dissatisfied with Togoland's progress toward independence, the U.N. politely but firmly ordered a general election to be held under U.N. supervision...