Word: toward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Think About Asia. Last week a stream of Senators took the floor to slash at the bankrupt U.S. policy toward China. Twenty-one Senators signed a statement demanding assurances that the U.S. would not recognize the Chinese Communists...
Schism in the Court. The general flow of the court's majority opinions was along two main courses. One course was toward increasing tolerance of Government's spreading authority: the Supreme Court was for Big Government...
...course, forgets the day in 1930 when The MacNab won the Royal Hunt Cup. There was The MacNab, pounding toward the finish in a howling thunderstorm, when a flash of lightning struck and killed a prominent bookmaker...
While Red armies swept unchecked toward Canton, news came of a jolt to Communist hopes in China's far Northwest. Last month 120,000 Reds under General Peng Teh-huai had chased an old Nationalist adversary, moody General Hu Tsung-nan, from the stronghold of Sian (see map). The way to rich Szechuan province and its famed capital Chungking seemed open. Instead, Communist Peng's men, thrusting on from Sian, rushed into a trap; it was the Chinese Red army's first defeat since the start of their all-out offensive...
...like the Roman Catholics, dead set against materialism and violence, but, before joining Rome's 'crusade,' we want to make sure that we are not going to be dragged into unholy alliances. We do not measure a country by its attitude toward the establishment or disestablishment of the Church, as does Rome in the case of Spain, and we refuse to tie up the cause of Christ to the cause of the prevailing social class or political ideology. We finally hope that Rome will refrain from excessive indulgence toward forces of reaction and totalitarian rulers...