Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, a big chunk of the audience at a movie would rise in days past and bow toward the screen whenever Rita Hayworth appeared in a picture. Thus did Nairobi's Moslems pay their respects to the wife of Prince Aly Khan, whose father ruled their Ismaili sect. Asians in Africa are about 800,000 strong. While the white rulers have begrudgingly tolerated Africa's Asians, the blacks have become increasingly resentful of them. For a continent-wide report on the increasing number and growing problems of Asians in Africa, see FOREIGN NEWS. Between...
...notified that he had passed, he learned that his brother Everit, one year older, had been killed by German shrapnel. In his grief, Christian Herter (who is convinced that his brother would have been a great painter if he had lived) resolved somehow to spend his life working toward the cause of world peace...
...Threw the whole weight and wealth of U.S. influence behind the big European surge toward private enterprise and middle-class prosperity that mocked the basic Communist doctrine of class struggle, worked continually to bring to Western Europe some form of political-economic unity...
...have launched its capsule over the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii on its 17th orbit. A retrorocket would slow it down to force its entry into the scorching atmosphere. Then an orange parachute (lined with aluminum for radar reflection) would pop at a preset speed, drop it gently toward the water. Eight Air Force C-119 flying boxcars, trailing 15-ft. by 30-ft. nylon harnesses, were to try snagging the package before...
Austrians everywhere felt sorry for Smilja-but having accepted a million refugees from Communism since World War II, they were still in no mood to change Austria's present restrictive policies toward immigrants. Involved in Austria's dilemma is the unsolved international problem of what is a refugee...