Word: toward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magnificent assistance Bulgaria could expect from her Soviet ally. But he soon found out that trade with Russia is a one-sided affair. He began to rebel against the slow, deliberate sacrifice of Bulgaria's economy to Russia. "He followed a policy which lacked sincerity and friendship toward the U.S.S.R.," said the Communists' bill of particulars against Kostov. "Comrade Kostov was moved by a conscious individualism [toward] unhealthy ambitions...
While the Western allies were still congratulating themselves on an important measure of progress toward a democratically ordered Europe, the damper came...
Death Among the Blossoms. A grimy, black-toothed Buddhist monk, leaning over a balcony in red-walled, pagoda-roofed Chi Ming (Temple of the Crowing Cock), nods his head down the mountainside toward Lotus Lake. "The willow trees," he says, "are very beautiful this year, but no one seems to care." The willows are blossoming with delicate, pale-green traceries. Peach and cherry blossoms are out, too. Along the top of the crenelated wall that surrounds the city, daisies, pansies and violets bloom. But few notice them in this unhappy spring...
...through the sunny morning, delegations heaped wreaths on the spot where Gaitán fell. Then, in a 30-block-long procession, they streamed toward the green lawns of the capital's Parque Nacional. The crowd-some 180,000 strong-was the biggest Bogotá (pop. 400,000) had ever seen. At 1:05 p.m., the hour of their martyr's death, screaming horns and sirens made a louder racket than any New Year's celebration the city had ever heard. There was no violence...
...swollen editorial payroll (250), pared production costs, boosted circulation by 20,000 to a 370,000 high. In three months, the Post started to make money. But as the Post moved into the black, Mrs. Thackrey was increasingly disturbed by the way Thackrey's editorials moved toward the Red line. Instead of being a "liberal democratic" spokesman, the Post was editorially pro-Wallace and anti-Marshall Plan, critical of U.S. policy and sympathetic to Soviet policy. Thackrey spoke at the pro-Soviet Waldorf-Astoria Cultural Conference (TIME, April 4), and printed his own three-column-long speech...