Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India, Pakistan and the United States seem to have mellowed on certain points of contention under the influence of the Tibetan situation. Nehru sounds more and more like a "Western" diplomat rather than a "neutralist," and American attitudes toward India warm as Indian outrage over Tibet grows. Last week The Times of India was filled with enough good feeling to advocate a summit meeting between Nehru and Mohammed Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan, praising the new Pakistani government as "the one with which we can do business. Its leaders have on more than one occasion made conciliatory references to India...
...provide undergraduates with a medium for free, creative expression," to "bring to a new audience . . .," "to suggest the way toward controversy . . .," and with each such credo the great Hindu Wheel turns ever so slightly on its axis and Wisdom Incarnate emerges in the form of a new publication around Harvard Square...
When the two men, "inspired by the example of the 13 American colonies," joined forces last November, scarcely a month had passed since Guinea cut itself loose from France. To Nkrumah, the union seemed an auspicious first step toward an eventual United States of Africa, and he promised a $28 million loan. Of this sum, $11 million has been paid-half of it just before Nkrumah's arrival. Otherwise, the union has been largely talk. Touré, the junior partner, has been moving off in some alarming directions...
Since U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took ill and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan stepped forward toward the leadership of the free world, the British press has been bursting with local pride. And in the process of building Macmillan up, even such ordinarily responsible papers as the Daily Telegraph and the weekly Observer have joined the raucous "popular" press in pot-shooting at an old friend. The target: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, depicted in the British press as a sick, doddering old man who cannot possibly match wits with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev...
...submarine service is a most unusual [human] laboratory," concluded Captain Alvis, "a progressive series of valid limited objectives leading toward the ultimate goal of an honored retired citizen with a fairly adequate income for life." For mental health, few landlubbers can match such conditions: hard work among good men, well done and well appreciated...