Word: inwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Native crime has made white South Africa tense and fearful. Johannesburgers barricade their doors at night, and many sleep with .25 automatics tucked under their pillows. Yet fear seeps in. It is an inward-growing fear, the kind that made a Nationalist M.P. cry out recently: "I can't bear this apartheid. I don't know what to do." It was a fear movingly described by Author Alan Paton in Cry, the Beloved Country: "Which do we prefer, a law-abiding, industrious and purposeful native people or a lawless, idle and purposeless people? The truth is that...
About this inward theme of guilt and redemption rages the outward action of the book. In 1348 the Black Death tore through Bedesford like a cyclone; fewer than a third of the townsfolk survived. Then came the plague of the fallow deer and the flood of the Wode. Yet Edwin and Jeanne, Jack and Joan, Alfred and Juliana went on working and breeding, and soon the fields were up to mark again and the population almost normal...
...order to permit undergraduates in the College and Radcliffe to explore their interests in the field of education, the faculty ruled that they could count inward their bachelor degrees three half-courses offered by the faculty of education...
...counter-reformation cannot be hatched in the closing lines of magazine articles. It is more important to bring the news that Russia is not irresistible; that the regime cannot be changed by persuasion or inward force; that it depends, however, for its life on the capitalist West and that to render it harmless we need only freeze the cold war solid, and isolate Russia; and that we must use the years of waiting, during which, armed but inact've, we watch our enemy weaken, to promote this counter-reformation of the West...
...inward pressure on the Cairo government to do something against the British also grew by the day. Mobs roaming through Cairo cried for arms and blood revenge, and were stopped finally by police firing into the air. The cabinet met to discuss breaking off diplomatic relations with Britain. Over Egypt's restless land hung the expectancy of more trouble...