Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. The ministers were in essential agreement before they met and they were in essential agreement when the sessions ended. But in the course of their discussions the urgency fizzled out. What might have been a landmark in the West's progress toward self-defense degenerated into a frustrating argument about details and timing...
...seats. But ECA officials had lost patience with cabinet shuffling. At week's end ECA and State Department officials announced a slash in Greek assistance funds. "This action," said a Department spokesman, "is based upon the conclusion, after careful consideration and analysis, that the rate of progress in the Greek program has not been sufficient to allow complete and effective utilization of the amount originally contemplated...
...having the offending whiskers plastered to his face. Next day, in his cream-and-green private room, with his fractured femur fastened together by steel pins, Vegetarian Shaw sat up to munch on nuts and fruit, listened with gusto over a portable radio to BBC reports on his progress. When a nurse finished washing him, Shaw grumbled that he wanted a bath certificate: "Otherwise someone will come along tomorrow and want to do the same thing again. Too much washing is not good for antiques...
...duty to his sovereign, his native land and those it holds dear, should not be protected by a special Providence. And he is!" Aided by this inextinguishable faith, Christopher survives his enemies, but only after a siege of torments as destructive as Christian's in Pilgrim's Progress...
...soldiers in the 24th Infantry Division, and we greatly depend upon your magazine to inform us of our progress in other sectors, as we seldom know what is going on outside our immediate area...