Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...their rooms, made dissenters walk the plank, fired machine guns down the halls ("Girls! Girls! A little less noise please"). He spread his humor through weekly features for Punch and London's News Chronicle, including a cartoon-strip parody on Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, and illustrations for books and magazines. Now, at 40, Searle is developing his more serious side (he conveniently blew up St. Trinian's with an A-bomb). He prefers to be "something of a roving reporter," recently completed a distinguished book on Europe's refugee camps...
...President Richard Nixon seemed to be a man enviably in command of his own immediate political situation. He was the unchallenged contender for the Republican presidential nomination, with the blessing of the man he hopes to succeed in the White House. No doubtful primary elections impeded his path of progress toward the Republican National Convention in July; no serious rivals for his party's top honor stood in his way. But last week, twelve weeks before the convention, Dick Nixon's command of the situation was a questionable honor: it left him fighting almost single-handed against...
...strong smog-control bill, aimed at smog-choked Los Angeles, requiring that cars in California be fitted with suppressors to cut down on engine hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. Progress will be slow: first the state has to approve a suppressor design; then motorists have to get the smog-stopper installed...
...Susanne began first grade in a regular school, only her mother's iron persistence kept her there. Ruth Slay drove to the school three times a day-once to deliver Susanne, once to help her go to the cafeteria, finally to bring her home. The child made little progress...
Trujillo and the Reds have played pata-cake before. In the postwar flush of good will toward Moscow, the dictator praised Russia "as one of the forces for progress," and legalized Communists as "eloquent rebuttal to calumniators who accuse the Dominican Republic of not being a democratic country." That honeymoon with the Reds lasted less than a year, after which Trujillo turned about once more, again banned the Communists and even set up an investigating Committee on Un-Dominican Activities...