Word: toward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey, highball in hand, was all smiles as he circulated among the distinguished Republicans gathered at. Washington's Mayflower Hotel for the annual Lincoln Day dinner. The rumored boycott of his speech had failed to materialize, and there were no outward signs of the resentment some Republicans feel toward their losing candidate...
...tiny, overworked fire department screamed up & down streets until its sirens threatened to drown out the busy whistles of the gaily bannered river steamers. On Saturday, one of the bantam-sized fire trucks struck and killed a young woman pedestrian in front of the Oikwan. As it roared on toward its blaze without even slowing down, enraged police and soldiers raced ridiculously after it on foot, brandishing rifles...
...Willie. But wily Willie, a shrewd hand and a good boxer, hung on, dodged, shook loose the cobwebs between rounds. Just before the bell ended the 15th, Pep was in trouble again; as he ducked a punch he sagged, momentarily helpless, against the ropes. Saddler swayed toward him-trying to find strength for just one more swing. He couldn't, and the bell ended one of the most rousing scraps in Garden history...
Glad Acres reported that Rupert was a failure. He was not "reluctant," as some cattlemen have called him. His attitude toward cows was normal, but he was sterile...
Seldom, either, has there been such monotony of murder. The one-man reign of terror that ends with Richard's death on Bosworth Field not only demotes the play from tragedy to melodrama; it eventually gives horror the colorlessness of habit. Toward the end, Shakespeare's Richard III is very nearly as bad as Shakespeare's Richard...