Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means hang, draw and quarter Mr. Curtis and preserve his remains in the Anti-Saloon League museum at Mansfield as another souvenir of our progress toward true liberty and patriotism, under the guidance of the Watch and Ward zealots...
...last week to the effect that France would be pleased to re-open negotiations for a settlement of her War debts to the U. S. and Britain.But before many hours had passed it became clear that the rumor had been started as an attempt to determine the French attitude toward ratification of the agreements reached with the U. S. and British Governments. (TIME, May 10, July...
Exasperated, the Paris press in particular looked upon the action as little less than impudence and forthwith began a campaign look-ing .toward his recall. The French Government was constrained to ask its envoy in Moscow, M. Jean Herbette, to make friendly recommendations to the Kremlin to this effect. But the Bolshevik authorities remained deaf to the French request and dumb so far as M. Rakovsky was concerned...
Said the wife in the above-mentioned advertisement, gesturing toward a bath of rust-colored water: "Just look at that water! It was bad enough to put up with red, rusty water at the cottage all summer-but to come back home to this...
Soon Liechtenstein's 65 square miles of territory were converted into one gigantic bog, tops of houses and church spires, with an occasional oasis of high ground, lifting above the sea of mud. Frantic peasants drove their cattle as best they could toward the high mounds of land; boatmen plied their oars with aching muscles as they ferried women and children from their submerged houses to those still standing above the flood. Many people were forced to spend two days on their house tops...