Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House next day, the President himself did his best to correct any impression the world might have that he was cool toward Herter. He mustered the entire Cabinet for the swearing-in ceremony, said that Dulles and he were one in considering Herter "the man best qualified to take over the office." Said Herter: "I appreciate your confidence in me, Mr. President." Said Ike, gripping him at the elbow: "You certainly have that." And when Herter got back to the State Department, he found waiting to greet him on the steps some 600 State Department staffers. Said...
Shortly past midnight a group of about eight or ten dark figures darted through the moonlight toward the Poplarville, Miss. courthouse. Opening a window, they slipped into the sheriff's office. They seemed to know that the jailer had gone for the night. They knew, too, that the cell keys were in a metal cabinet in the sheriff's office. Some of the raiders waited in the darkened second-floor courtroom, while a few others, wearing gloves and masks, pushed their way through the courtroom into the cell area just above. A voice barked and startled Prisoner...
...another with a stick. A third picked up a garbage can and hit him. Parker went down, bleeding. "I didn't do it!" he cried again. "Well, who did?" demanded a man. Wildly, furiously, Parker pointed at his fellow prisoners: "He did it!" The raiders began dragging him toward the stairs. One of them turned to the other five frightened prisoners and warned: "Keep your damn mouths shut!" Parker wailed: "Don't take me out! Don't let them kill...
...disaster of this magnitude would nullify all India's progress toward human welfare, might well result in "civil disturbance...
...concepts in missile technology will create a trend toward unifying the three branches of the Armed Forces, Malcolm A. MacIntyre, Undersecretary of the Air Force, told members of the Young Republican Club last night...