Word: onwardness
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When the Russians hastily assembled a replacement train for the onward journey to Moscow, the Peking crew locked the emergency brakes on their own equipment, raised red signals, and moved cranes to blockade the rails. In the end, the harried Russians were able to force the Chinese train-and its rambunctious passengers-back over the frontier into Mongolia, and with a sigh of relief, Soviet trainmen chugged off toward Moscow in the replacement train. It might well be the last trip in a long time for the Moscow-Peking express. The Kremlin dashed off a scathing official protest to Peking...
Soon Scandalous John and Paco, mounted on two broken-down nags, are relentlessly driving Old Blue up the Chisum Trail toward the distant stock yards. For weeks through sun, sand and storm, they plod onward, encountering temptation and incomprehension. Nearly everybody along the way tries to persuade John to desist. As for the neatly laid-out fences that block their path, he blithely cuts them. "If you want to get some place in this world," he says, "you've got to cut fence now and again . . . The extent of a man's fences is the extent...
Naked Europeans. Despite France's aversion to tariff-cutting, U.S. negotiators at Geneva hoped to achieve far-reaching liberalization of world trade through President Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act. Special Envoy Christian Herter and his 20-man delegation - who were dubbed "Onward Christian's Soldiers" by the press corps-aimed for an agreement whereby Europe and the U.S. would make big, equal, across-the-board percentage cuts on huge categories of goods. Nothing doing, retorted the Europeans, who pointed out that U.S. tariffs are generally higher than Europe's, while the highest U.S. tariffs cover...
...letters formed an elegant chronicle of hope and hardship, ambition and anguish, written by a plain man who looked only up. In the moonlight, Jim Whittaker wrote to his mother, "this is the most beautiful mountain in the world." "Onward and upward," he wrote to his brother, despite his sorrow at the death of a fellow climber. "I've been an individual enough of my life," he wrote to his wife, Blanche. "The important thing is that someone makes it. I'll be happy to go as high as I can or as high as I am permitted...
Like any normal, healthy Kennedy kinsman, the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, has political ambitions. Having successfully launched the Peace Corps, Shriver would like to go onward and upward to elective office in Illinois...