Word: toward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French coast near the mouth of the Somme, pass west of Paris. At eleven two more squadrons of heavy bombers followed the path of the first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers had passed the steel mills of Bordeaux, toward which other squadrons were speeding; medium bombers had circled Orleans, passed Le Mans on their way back to Cherbourg and home. At 2 p. m. the first squadrons of Blenheims and Wellingtons were at their airports; five minutes later the lighter bombers landed...
...marriage ceremony. A romantic story has it that Edda's trips to London, made in the late 1920s ostensibly for pleasure, were to see her real mother, who, it is said, died of tuberculosis about 1930. With this story is linked the conclusion that Edda's tendency toward weak lungs, which have not appeared in the Mussolini boys, was inherited from her mother...
...foreign parts, FCC inserted a provision that the programs "shall render only an international broadcast service which will reflect the culture of this country and which will promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." Behind the provision, Washington observers felt, was the State Department's Good-Neighborly tact toward Latin-American autocrats. But broadcasters promptly protested what looked like a short-wave shortcut to direct censorship...
...week filed a hundred-odd Washington correspondents, for the President's usual bi-weekly press conference. As usual, the reporters fell into two groups: 1) those assigned exclusively to cover President Roosevelt's activities, 2) other correspondents and their newspaper friends. Members of the first group drifted toward the front of the room, as usual, and as usual the United Press's tremendous Fred Storm lowered himself into his special chair so that those in the rear could see past him. Franklin Roosevelt gripped a long cigaret holder in his jaw, as he almost always does...
...dressing a raiding party in suits of armor-"They admit of the most daring exploits in broad daylight," beamed the general, confiding that the Austrians had spent enormous sums trying to steal the patent on them. Eighteen volunteers, looking like medieval knights, heaved themselves over the parapet, clanked toward the enemy. The general turned to the colonel and said gravely, "The Romans owed their victories to their cuirasses." Two Austrian machine guns punctuated his remark. As he peered over the parapet, the last of the 18 armored Italians toppled over like tin cans...