Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quickening of U.S. mobilization-a gradual process, partly concealed by security rules-could hardly be seen last week in the August sun. But the quiet was deceptive: Americans cocked an anxious ear to the sounds of the battle along the Naktong. In such a week, an urbane Briton had something to say about the U.S. attitude...
Tentatively the House passed the whole bill, turned around the next day and voted the whole thing down, and was back where it started. The Senate, going through the same process in committee, got no further...
...resents any attempt to help him. He struggles up from complete despair to an awakened will to live, then to physical rehabilitation, hope -and further disillusionment, and finally, after he has grappled with the facts and not been thrown, to his real beginning. It is a growing-up process that the girl, in her different way, must go through too. Their suffering, and the glimpses of the other characters' struggles, make the film a moving salute to the human spirit...
...woman's life, she says, is roughly divided into three parts: childhood, womanhood and the years during and after the menopause. This final phase is not caused by any breakdown in a woman's machinery, says Dr. Lincoln; it is merely a part of the natural process of aging, and means that the hormone-secreting ovaries are getting tired...
...Apron Strings. The essence of capitalism, says Demant, is "the predominance of market relationships over the greater part of the social field." The free market of capitalism pinned a "For Sale" sign on more & more aspects of human life, he feels; the process reached a "climax of social destructiveness when the three foundations of society, which are not by their nature commodities', [were] treated as if they were-namely, labor, land and money...