Word: toward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, international pariah, seemed to be making progress toward getting back into the community of western nations. In the U.S. Senate last week, several members let it be known that they were ready to let bygones be bygones. Nevada's Democrat Pat McCarran started it by asking: Why should the U.S. not give Dictator Franco the same recognition it gives Dictator Stalin...
...solved this by hanging one loud speaker on a lighting boom directly over the stage and aiming it out toward the audience. He placed another backstage it is the latter speaker which gives the effect of the music coming from the air of an enchanted laic...
...elements of the story are extremely well presented: the study of Bello's fear and the way it affects his attitude toward the bulls, and the picture of the festival of bulls...
Students will have full care of their rooms in addition to an increased amount of waiting on table, pantry work, and bell duty. Maids will continue to take care of public rooms, bath rooms, and corridors. No girl will have to give up more than five hours per week toward the work program and the number of hours will probably run somewhat less in the larger halls...
...ambitious: he planned to make a million dollars by the time he was thirty. But once he has said this much, Busch proceeds to embellish rather than to develop his story. And his occasional efforts to probe deep frequently border on the ridiculous. "The urgency of Hadden's impulse toward life," he writes, "started with his original struggle to stay alive in the first place." This "struggle" took place when "little Hadden" was between one and six weeks old, and was brought about by his premature birth. "Ever since that time," Busch goes on, "he had lived harder and faster...