Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, the news is not just what happened yesterday or today. It is the whole stream of events, which can be seen in their full dimension only by assessing the past, examining the present, following the course of trends and looking toward the future. Four facets of the news in this week's TIME especially illustrate this scope...
...LOOKING toward the day a year from now when the U.S. will elect a President, NATIONAL AFFAIRS deployed political reporters in force to catch the significant straws. From Albany to Atlanta to Dallas to Sacramento, from Rockefeller to Kennedy to Johnson to Brown, they produced a whole series of beneath-the-surface stories as the presidential season opened in earnest...
...legendary strength of an Atlas, could long support the world on its shoulders," said he. "The free nations of the world, motivated by both humanitarianism and self-interest, should cooperate voluntarily in a long-range program aimed at helping the presently less-privileged peoples work step by step toward a better life. Every nation should contribute to the common enterprise in whatever...
Among the ways and means: "technical services, private and public loans, dependable, mutually helpful trade relationships, grants in emergency situations, security help in transition years ... If the growing power of free men is wisely and skillfully applied toward the common aspirations of humanity, then a world of peace and plenty becomes a high probability. The free nations of the world have the capacity and can develop the will to overcome together the powerful, perplexing forces which for thousands of years have yielded hate, distrust, poverty...
...free men shape historic trends toward noble goals," he said, many of today's nettlesome problems will abolish themselves. "As the less developed nations succeed in establishing viable economies and raising their living standards, our own economy will soar to new heights and our technology will be challenged as never before. Burdensome surpluses-even those of wheat-will disappear. Enlarged demand throughout the world will have to be met by new methods, and more effective use of resources everywhere...