Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stalemate. They feel it is impossible to go back to the days of absolute white supremacy, which brought on the Mau Mau terror, and equally impossible to go ahead to granting Kenya complete (and all-black) independence on the model of Ghana. But if Mboya continues to reject the gradual "multiracial" approach to self-government, the result will be increasing racial tension that may end in a renewal of fighting-only this time with all the tribes and not just with the 1,500,000 Kikuyu, who supplied the hard core of Mau Mau rebels...
...gradual departure from Kudner was due in part to dissatisfaction with the agency's recent handling of G.M. accounts. Yet some Detroiters attributed the falling-out to the very closeness of their long relationship. As they told it, the longtime friendship between former Kudner President J. H. S. Ellis...
...they were not making the tour as "Confederate knights in shining armor," but as private citizens interested in finding "a free arena of discussion where reasonable people can achieve better understanding." Seemingly at odds with the proposition they were supporting in the no-decision debate, their goal was: a gradual approach to integration, with sufficient time for Southern moderates to "communicate with our people." Said Layfield, before the Mercer team packed up its arguments and headed for Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, its next stop: "We were born and raised in the South, and we have been able...
...medieval, millions of Spanish women sit behind their lattices and, as the Spanish say, "wait for the blue prince." For a pretty girl or a wealthy girl, the wait may not be long. For those who have neither looks nor money, life can be the sort of gradual death this picture painfully and vividly anatomizes...
...impressive career behind him. After starting out as an errand boy, he was, when he retired in 1955, general and political secretary of the Independent Labor Party. Retirement, he soon found, turned out to be a bore-"a little too much smoking, a little too much drinking, a gradual loss of interest in world affairs and, finally, senility at the end." After eight months of it, Bachelor McNair went before the King's College board in the fall of 1955. He discussed in both English and French his lifetime of wide reading, soon convinced the members that there...