Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rejecting this offer, made counterproposals: I) recognition of Soviet "paramount interest" in the administration of Berlin; 2) suspension of the provisional government set up by the Western Allies for Western Germany; 3) a Soviet voice in control of the Ruhr and withdrawal of all occupation forces as first steps toward a German treaty...
...March 16, we were informed that the government of the U.S.S.R. had decided immediately to withdraw all military advisers and instructors [from Yugoslavia] on the grounds that they were in "hostile surroundings" . . . During their entire stay, Yugoslavia's attitude toward them was not only good but actually brotherly. Therefore, we are amazed, we cannot understand and are deeply hurt...
Localized Zigzags. Li, Ho or Fu (or any other successor to Chiang) would have great difficulty uniting the Kuomintang behind him. The mere mention of their names brought closer the prospect of regionalism. A trend toward decentralization has already set in, partly because the Gimo has had to rely on trusted local commanders in remote areas to equip and organize their own commands. In North China, local authorities have been buying arms for militia forces independent of the Central government, and the use of silver dollars (banned by the Central government in 1935) has spread. In Manchuria, General...
...Grable, long-shanked, blue-eyed, 5 ft. 3½ in., no pounds, knows one answer. "Girls," she says, "can see me in a picture and feel I could be one of them." A wag with a parody spoke for the male audience when he sang, with no perceptible rancor toward Betty's bandleader husband...
Says Group Therapist Dr. Joseph Abrahams, taking a crack at carpet weaving and other traditional therapeutic practices: "What they're trying to do is to reach back toward society . . . The object is for them to learn to live with people, not with rugs...