Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...world's highest-paid musicians, Paul Robeson had traveled far from the house in Princeton, NJ. where he was born the son of a runaway slave. But he wasn't satisfied with his progress in the U.S.; 16 years ago, he went all the way for Moscow, and decided that Negroes had a better chance of advancing under the Commies. For the last three years, in London, Moscow, Paris, Manhattan, he had faithfully slandered the Atlantic pact, the Marshall Plan, the U.S. defense of Korea-shouting, all the while, for Soviet-style "peace...
...Copacabana's handsome square, thousands of Bolivian Indians, the men in grinning masks, the women adorned with sparkling silver belts and jewelry, staged another uproarious carnival. At a border village, scores of Indians were staggering around the patio of a house where a wedding fiesta was in progress. In a room off the patio sat the bride and bridegroom, immobile, glassy-eyed, unable even to speak. "They are seasick," explained a guest...
...faced up to the fact that a premature report of a troop landing means lives. I don't think we should take any more chances." Unless the Army is willing to institute censorship, or at least enforce an ironclad rule against reports of troop movements still in progress, it is virtually certain that more chances will be taken...
...Bailey is weakest where it might have been richest: in Author O'Donnell's sketchy, fleshless recounting of the trials that took place there through the centuries. He seems to be chiefly interested in showing off Old Bailey's progress from the dim, grim, soulless courtroom of the Reformation days, when more than 200 different crimes carried the death penalty, to today's "fine and stately" oak-paneled Central Criminal Court, where justices take a not-guilty verdict calmly...
...Progress. In Washington, D.C., the monthly Postal Record of the National Association of Letter Carriers noted that although it took the fastest pony express something more than nine hours to deliver a letter from St. Joseph, Mo. to Kansas City, "the modern, streamlined postal service" does the job in two or three days...