Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from a new U.S. helicopter (the first aircraft ever to land in the Vatican) to a crowd of bicycle racers departing for Sardinia. In his Latin blessing of the "helicopterum," he asked God to "grant that in the same way it rises into ethereal spaces, our minds be elevated toward celestial things and be united by ties of charity." And he advised the cyclists: "When you get to Cagliari, tell the Madonna of Bonaria that the Pope sent you, and she will bless Italy, you and your families...
...outrage of Pastor Duncan made good publicity for the flower show; attendance was up some 20,000 over last year. "Toward the end," said one official, "we had more men of the cloth in there than we had flowers...
...moved another stride toward the day when man will blast into space, and return, gliding through the atmosphere perhaps on red-hot wings to land at a chosen spaceport. At California's Edwards Air Force Base last week, a ponderous B-52 jet bomber lumbered down the runway, its engines spouting black smoke. From the rear it did not look right; it was lopsided, with a goodish-sized object hung unsymmetrically under its right wing. As the bomber broke ground, it listed slightly from the dragging weight...
...Indian government also controls all news distribution facilities, and by informing the U.S.'s Associated Press that its license will not be renewed when it expires late this month, India moved toward granting a near monopoly on the supply of foreign news. Agence France Presse got shut out when its Indian outlet, the independent United Press of India (no kin to United Press International), founded in the 1930s by leaders of the Congress freedom movement, collapsed last fall. United Press International, seeking a contract to supply Ramanath Goenka's chain, has been pointedly discouraged by the government...
...idea behind India's policy toward foreign news agencies is to protect its only remaining domestic news agency, Press Trust of India, from ruinous competition. It is an ironic fact that by trying to help Press Trust of India (which depends heavily for revenue on the government-owned All India Radio), India is also giving a near monopoly of foreign news service to the agency that supplies Press Trust: Britain's Reuters Ltd., long a symbol to Indians of British imperialism. It is even more ironic that India, which won its national freedom so dearly, has created...