Word: toward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maryland and Pennsylvania, courts have abolished the presumption that all household goods, including jewelry, belong to the husband −part of an over all trend toward recognizing the nonmonetary contributions of the housewife to the family's wealth...
...make some headway on the Hill, it could be that after more than two years of training he is learning the ropes of world power. Nobody knows for sure the delicate mix of events and emotions that produced the peace agreement. But having the carrier Constellation on its way toward the Arabian Sea, hurrying weapons and technicians to North Yemen and backing up his words of resolve with suggestions of further armed American presence surely helped more than those sermons on human rights...
Enforcement of the state ERAS varies from negligible in Virginia to considerable in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. But in gen eral, says the Civil Rights Com mission, the effect "has been one of substantial strides toward equality," achieved in an orderly way. Some results...
...Paris, his dream of a United States of Europe, linked both politically and economically, remained unfinished. But Monnet was a patient man. "I'm not an optimist," he once said, "I am simply persistent," and thus he may have been pleased by the progress that had been made toward his overriding vision. Last week, at a summit meeting in Paris, leaders of the Community officially launched the long-awaited European Monetary System. Next June there will be direct elections for the European Parliament, and the Common Market is slowly negotiating expansion to include Greece, Portugal and Spain...
...Coal and Steel Community in 1955 and founded the Action Committee for the United States of Europe. Although high office was his for the asking, he preferred to be a backstage lobbyist for his dream of a united Europe, whispering into the ears of Presidents and Premiers, nudging them toward his vision. "The world is divided into those who want to become someone and those who want to accomplish something," he liked to say. He would add that "there is less competition" in the second category, to which he so clearly belonged...