Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...NOTEBOOK: The injury report: Cuccia said he is a "maybe" for next week at Princeton. Buchanan's ankle is not broken, but he said next week is "up in the air." Buckley is making better-than-expected progress, but he is still probably a rew weeks away... Dartmouth and Yale now share the Ivy lead with 2-0 records. Brown is 3-1, and Harvard is 2-1.... Despite injuries of varying severity and respectability, The Harvard Crimson came from behind to thrash The Daily Dartmouth...
...first days grew robust upon soldiers' payday recreations and the gamy appetites of buffalo hunters. Susan Miles, 89, daughter of one of the earlier settlers, manages to sound both scandalized and amused about the town's atmosphere even after the fort closed down: "Big drinking meant big progress. I remember the painted girls riding around town late in the afternoon with their parasols all different colors. They were the prettiest things in the world...
...progress from those beginnings to success on the screen and in politics has made Reagan a sunny optimist. He has great confidence in the individual's ability to make his way in the world, if only the individual is worthy and will put forth an effort, because he did it. And he has a misty nostalgia for the way things were before the Government got big and intrusive, a generalized longing for a simpler world where there were no forms to be filled out in triplicate...
...along a 500-mile front from the Iranian border town of Qasr-e-Shirin in the north to the port of Khorramshahr in the south. The Iraqi proposal for a "unilateral ceasefire" appeared to have been merely a smokescreen to cover the fact that its forces were making limited progress toward their objectives. Baghdad's battle plan apparently called for the seizure of key cities in Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province, which has a large Arab minority. The cities would have been held for ransom against a settlement that would give Iraq control of the Shatt...
...They go to Africa holding very simplistic views, impatient that progress has not been made along Western lines, and then they distort the news in order to grab the attention of readers back home," Garba says...