Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Street is a workmanlike, exciting show, but basically it does not seem different enough from a lot of crime fiction to be worth all the documentary bother. Semi-documentaries are verging, in fact, toward formula. If they are to realize their fine potentialities-or even stay as good as they started, they need new ideas and new problems. Self-repetition is not immediately fatal; but it brings death to the door, and leaves the door on the latch...
...next fall the Big Four might sit down under quite different circumstances. By then there might be a move toward a U.S. military guarantee of Western Union, starting with practical staff cooperation in an Atlantic defense system. Western Union might be moving rapidly on the political and economic fronts...
...conferees had weightier matters than lumps of sugar to discuss, but the sugar symbolized how little progress toward real unity their five nations had made since signing the Brussels pact last March. In four months Western Union had gone a little way toward military integration, but hardly a step toward economic or political unity...
When a Nigerian says "fine pass" he means very good quality. When he says "fine pass kerosene" he means the very best. The British Labor government's high-minded intentions toward its African empire were certainly "fine pass kerosene"; but its performance was "soso talk" (ineffectual messing around...
...Toward dawn our guide led us to the rim of a deep hollow, blanketed with yellow kunai grass. At the bottom were three dilapidated board shacks, before one of which a woman puttered over her morning chores. As Stafford led the squad crawling down into the hollow, the woman glanced up and shrieked. Three armed men burst from the house and fled for an opposite hill...