Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shop as chief critic of Administration defense policy, failed to score a direct hit in many bombing runs on and off the Senate floor. Feeling the balance-the-budget heat, he gradually backed down from his charge that the Defense Department was dangerously starved by the Budget Bureau, shifted toward a new line in favor of re jiggered priorities (more ICBMs) within present spending. Turning his attention to the farm program, he failed to score with cloudy hints of Commodity Credit scandals, or help write a new party farm program. Half-time score: Symington is still the favorite of most...
Last week, rushing toward adjournment, Congress also...
...flames had reached the first trees above, and the whole ridge to the north and west of town roared as the fire leaped through treetops, gobbling up great stands of ponderosa pine in one crackling rush. Townsmen quickly set to work spraying and shoveling under flames that licked down toward houses at the edge of town. National Guardsmen rolled in with bulldozers to make a firebreak. Fire fighters rushed in from Colorado, Montana...
Though their relaxed attitude toward sex shocks some Westerners,* most visitors agree that the pleasantest thing in Laos is the Laotian people. Laotian girls have oval faces, high cheekbones, blue-black hair, shyly flirtatious eyes, and the world's smallest waists. The men are short-statured, sturdy-legged, even-tempered and given to such amiably negative remarks as "There isn't any," "It doesn't work'' and "It can't be helped." In most years Laotians catch enough fish, grow enough rice and yams and brew enough wine to allow ample time for their...
Nevertheless, only a small step was taken toward a settlement. Management agreed to refer work practices and other local issues (TIME, Aug. 24) to labor-management subcommittees in the twelve major struck companies, thus agreeing with the union's stand that these are local problems that should be handled on the local level. "The strike has now reached a critical stage," said Labor Secretary James Mitchell, "and the next few days will determine whether we get a reasonable settlement or whether the strike will be further drawn...