Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repeating Neville Chamberlain's performance at Munich, Khrushchev flatly laid down his uncompromising terms on Germany, in such a way as to demonstrate that he was not interested in reasonable accommodations. In doing so, he also inflicted a historic humiliation on Macmillan and paraded his contempt and indifference toward Britain...
...Letts's appointment of monitors was virtually the only practical solution to the suit for invalidation of the election which John Cunningham, New York teamster leader, brought against the union. But neither monitors nor disciplinary expulsion by the AFL-CIO has diminished the union's strength or reformed tendencies toward corruption...
With a 6-3 loss to the Yale freshmen last Saturday, the Yardling squash team brought its overall record to 8-8. It was a hot-and-cold year for the Freshmen, who suffered from two main defects--a chronic inability to assemble a full team and a tendency toward collapse in away matches...
...scan a broad belt around the earth, reporting on the cloud patterns that indicate the trend of the earth's weather. Ordinary meteorological methods keep accurate track of the weather over only 5% of the earth's surface. Vanguard II will raise this figure toward 25%, giving hope of understanding how worldwide weather works...
...generation prototype plants for atomic power, on the theory that private firms have neither the money nor the know-how to go ahead fast enough. AEC's new plan still leaves the job largely to private industry, but there is one major concession. AEC, which now contributes only toward research and fuel costs of privately built plants, would offer private industry up to 50% of the cost of building prototype reactors, plus more money for research...