Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles' stiff statement came in a week of generally stiffening attitudes toward Berlin. Khrushchev began it with a brazen threat that any Western attempt to break through to West Berlin by force would bring nuclear war (see FOREIGN NEWS). In his press conference President Eisenhower promised: "We stand firm on the rights and the responsibilities that we have undertaken" on behalf of non-Communist Germany. And in a Washington speech to the National Press Club, West German Ambassador Wilhelm G. Grewe expressed his government's deep-seated doubt that the German crisis can somehow be solved...
...earth. When it is moving away from the sun, its sail will be at right angles to the sun's light, and it will get the maximum push in a forward direction. By the time it gets to the other side of its orbit and is moving toward the sun, the sail will have turned 90°. Its thin edge will point toward the sunlight and will be little affected...
...bring the space sailer back to the earth's orbit, the operator on earth could reset the sail at such an angle that sunlight bouncing off would tend to reduce its orbital speed. As the speed slowly diminished, the space sailer would spiral inward toward the sun, eventually returning to the earth's orbit...
...very different report on the invisible weather six miles up. There the wind was roaring out of the south-southwest at 104 m.p.h. At the same altitude and about 100 miles east-southeast of the airport, the great jet stream itself, flanked by belts of turbulence, hurtled toward Newfoundland at 160 m.p.h...
...Brother. Throughout the road try-out of any of their shows, and beyond the Broadway opening, R. & H. are omnipresent. In their separate ways, they are intensely paternal toward their cast-Hammerstein gently smiling but a little shy and withdrawn, Rodgers quick, effervescent and always ready with a hug for a chorus girl. Says one member of the cast: "Hammerstein is the Great White Father, but Rodgers is Daddy...