Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruiser Jintsu, with a great gaping hole made by the Warabi, listed forward sharply and was towed in this precarious condition toward the Maizuru dockyards by the Kongo. The Ashi was also towed toward land by the Abukama. Neither cruiser lost any men. Total casualties were therefore 129 officers...
...town, But never let 'em say I'm mean or small! . . . Just keep an eye on all that's done and said And right me, sometimes, when I turn aside, And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead That stretches upward toward the great divide...
Union Square. In a typical U. S. square (Union Square, Manhattan), 10,000 people stood shoulder to shoulder before a bulletin of the Daily Worker. Toward midnight they read...
...citizen, the police arrested them. Then, kindled with the desire to assert his divinity, surrounded by his riff-raff apostles, the mad leper went last week to storm the jail. Bullets, he said, would fall from him as softly as flowers. Native nolicemen lifted their rifles, pumped bullets toward him, killed seven devotees, then the leper-god himself. His other disciples, astonished, stared, furious at the death of an-immortal...
...disfavor a gloomy pathway, splotched with grime and puddles, lined with tracks. "Whatever would they want tracks for?" he inquired of his wife as the three of them jumped down off the platform, paraded off into the dingy passage. Soon a train nosed around the curve, gathered speed, screamed toward Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter, ground brakes, shivered, stopped. Passengers, lifting themselves from the floor where the abrupt halt had put them, watched Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter clamber aboard, smiling mildly with surprise...