Word: toward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the calumnies heaped on the American government by Mexican leadership have become almost an annual ritual, the United States has only recently begun to take the Mexican charges seriously. American harshness toward Mexico in public actually masks division within the Carter ad-powerful Mexico, whose threats now have a more ominous ring than they did five short years...
Scoones was not even as lucky as the fishermen. A week into the hunt, the cable to his camera snagged and broke, the equipment was lost, and his frustrated TV crew promptly returned to England. Only a few days later a volcano erupted on Great Comoro. With lava flowing toward the sea, frantic natives commandeered Scoones' boat as an emergency vessel...
...Biennial's sculpture tends toward a kind of monotonous and outsize wackiness. A lot of it has more in common with precincts or buildings than with the usual conventions of sculpture: surrealism, mixed with primitivist nostalgia, is its presiding spirit. Donna Dennis' large-scale model of a frame house−swollen doll's quarters, too small to function as a building−is one example of the syndrome, and another is Alice Aycock's 24-ft.-long construction of arches, ladders and drumlike wooden wheels, whose title (The Happy Birthday Day Coronation Piece) sounds as portentous...
...think it would be a particularly interesting time for Horner and the others to visit China in light of the recent Chinese invasion of Vietnam," Albert M. Craig, associate director of the East Asian Research Center, said yesterday, adding that the group's visit will be "one more step" toward normalizing Chinese-American relations...
...entire weekend had to be geared toward beating Division II champions Johnson State, which was trying to qualify for Division I by overtaking Harvard in the race for the tenth position. The Crimson accomplished this, handily outscoring their challengers, 115-60, on some fine individual performances by Andy deMars, Alan Hale and Rand...