Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Despite obvious differences, the three had some significant qualities in common. All formed their political consciousness in the years after World War I, when a generation was assaulted by the century's most vicious fallacy, i.e., that Communism was kin to progress. All were affected by the fallacy in varying ways, and all, being gifted with brilliant intellects, did a great deal to spread its paralyzing poison through the West's thinking...
...certainly the best pen, in a group of experts, educators and diplomats-both in & out of the State Department-who strongly influenced U.S. policy in Asia. Specifically, this group consistently opposed U.S. aid to Nationalist China and Chiang Kaishek, whom Lattimore regards as the No. 1 enemy of progress in Asia. In his twelve books (The Mongols of Manchuria, America and Asia, The Situation in Asia, etc.), Lattimore has offered the U.S. a lot of advice on how to win friends in the Far East. One of his opinions, preached steadily for years', was that China's Communists...
...government, too, was dragging its feet, Zellerbach continued. A system of taxation which puts 43 taxes on a man's morning cup of coffee "tends to discourage business initiative and increase costs." Another obstacle to economic progress was the Italian bureaucracy. "A friend visited me," recounted the EGA chief, "and noticed a rug made here in Italy. He asked me to send samples and prices. After a month or two of trying to get all the necessary permits . . . my secretary gave up in despair, and the samples were never sent. Undoubtedly, much business has been lost for Italy...
...majority in the House of Commons down to a precarious four seats, Britons were watching the pulses and respirations of obscure members of Parliament as though each one were a rich relation. Last week five M.P.s were ill, and the British Press Association issued a bulletin on their relative progress. The report at week...
...Damned Don't Cry (Warner), but Joan Crawford does, in this true-confession-type story of a woman's sinful progress from hard times to easy virtue. First, like many of her fans, she is a shiny-nosed household drudge, bored and burdened with a husband who doesn't understand her. Escaping rebelliously, she becomes a cynical tart with a burlesque strut. Finally, having double-crossed her way onto the lap of an underworld titan, she acquires all the graces of a society matron. Along the way, Joan proves the undoing of four tall, handsome men, including...