Word: leftwards
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...Eric Knight merely mutters some phrases about the wisdom of the heart and a need for faith, dodges the whole crisis by bumping off his hero, gives his pregnant heroine a tag line about fighting it her way (unquestioning patriotism) now, and changing to Clive's way (Leftward) when war is done...
...high school, the Leibovitz twins made one of their rare joint pictures, a mural on which right-handed Freda worked leftward, southpaw Ida in the opposite direction until they met in the centre. The whole thing looked like one artist's work. When the Leibovitz twins, tramping through Philadelphia streets, painted the same subject, their conceptions were almost identical. In the contests in which...
Once a conservative who believed that democracy had been a dismal failure, Editor Agar swung leftward with Roosevelt. His recent books are pious, eloquent, Democratic; his syndicated column, Time and Tide, has a resolutely New Deal aura. He takes his seat in Marse Henry's vacant office next January, at the close of a current lecture tour...
...When the leftward hosts of Franklin Roosevelt swept the 1932 elections, they immediately staged a series of public trials, with Congressional committees as the juries, of prominent pillars of the Right. Wondrous entertaining to "forgotten" men was the parade of Charles E. Mitchell...
...handball games with the staff. But right out of old Mr. Lorimer's book is the reaching journalistic curiosity, the solid dependability and the capacity to absorb work which seem most typical of Wesley Stout. Under Wesley Stout the Post has moved no further leftward than it stood in the stand-pat days of George Horace Lorimer. Extreme partisanship, however, with regard to the current economic battle lines was much more a part of Mr. Lorimer's nature than it is of Wesley Stout's, who was probably too recently a newspaperman standing on the sidelines with...