Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 17 the Dalai Lama, his mother, sister and two brothers, guarded by a fanatic escort, slipped out of Lhasa and moved north, where there were few Chinese patrols. Traveling only at night, the party carefully circled the city and headed south toward the Indian border. On March 19 the fighting started...
...television industry seems to have the notion on occasion that it is a tribe of electronic Watusi. too tall to recognize anyone but giants. At award time each spring, the critics bow before Hope, proclaim faith in Dinah, show charity toward Sullivan. Last week the Peabody Awards committee changed TV scripture by singling out a cheery and engaging local show for one of its top awards. Shown only over Chicago's independent WGN-TV (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m.), The Blue Fairy in little more than a year captured Chicago youngsters without a struggle; now it has recognition...
Newspaper comic strips were once considered something for the kiddies, but through the years they have reached more and more toward the adult. Li'I Abner is a backwoods peepshow, abounding in pork-fed bosoms and thighs. Steve Canyon is an illustrated primer on military chess and international intrigue. The only violence not yet committed on the ageless person of Orphan Annie is rape. Even Peanuts, a comic with its points for young and old, is often a subtle dose of child psychology. Last week a comic created and drawn just for the kiddies-and, what's more...
Last week the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory announced a major step toward direct conversion: an experimental "plasma thermocouple" no bigger than a can of frozen orange juice. Placed inside the core of a research reactor, the device produced 40 watts of electricity -enough to light a household light bulb...
Once it nears its Auden-inspired moral ("We must love one another-or die"), Kataki is becalmed. For its first half, the play, however pawed, ticks with time-bomb suspense; toward the end, there is merely the tame metronome's beat marking empty theatrical time...