Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Harvard Inter-Tribal Council, representing the 25 members of the Harvard Indian community, is attempting to get University funding for student recruitment, but progress has been slow...
...countryside, Burma has a whole series of wars in progress. Private armies led by hill-tribe warlords wage a running battle for autonomy with the despised lowlanders from Rangoon. Rangoon and Peking recently agreed to exchange ambassadors once again (they were recalled during the Cultural Revolution in 1967); yet the Chinese have been quietly supporting a new group of Communist insurgents who have frequently bloodied Ne Win's 150,000-man army in clashes in Burma's sparsely populated northeast. Something less than half of the country (pop. 27 million) is really under Rangoon's control...
...Sunday; Australia on Monday; Djakarta Thursday; Hong Kong Friday morning, and Colombo, Ceylon, Friday evening on the way back to Rome. What does he hope to accomplish in return for such a grueling schedule? "It will stimulate missionary activity and broaden understanding with other religions in the service of progress and peace," he said in his farewell speech in Rome. But more than ever before, various aspects of the Pope's traveling plans have been criticized by the press and even by some prelates. To add to his discomfiture, he touched off criticism among his own cardinals shortly before...
...abdomen and removed about five feet of small intestine (the lower jejunum and upper ileum), and used this to replace Jane's missing tract. The surgeons also left a small, separate piece of the graft protruding through the abdominal wall, to facilitate observation of the transplant's progress. Last week the courageous donor was eating normally, and she expects to go home within a few days. Recipient Jane, after setting an endurance record for long-term survival on intravenous feeding, hungrily looked forward to the first taste of real food destined for her rebuilt digestive system...
...Life," really chose the wrong tree in preferring knowledge to life. "Once we know," he writes, "we are at odds with everything." For instead of serving man, reason "affords him arguments against himself." History Cioran reads as the disaster of man evolving "toward a complexity which is ruining him." "Progress," says Cioran, "is the modern equivalent of the Fall...