Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...didn't know what it was," Mitchell said later, "but I shouted for them all to get back away from it and I started running toward them. When I was only about 40 yards from them there was a terrific explosion." Mrs. Mitchell and the five children were killed...
...Greece, where the Red guerrillas were farther than ever from victory, Russia had taken a step toward liquidating a losing commitment: in talks with the Americans at Lake Success, Russia's Andrei Gromyko had tried to negotiate a cease-fire and general settlement for Greece. The West coolly declared that the proper place for further negotiations was U.N., that the Greek civil war could be "settled" only after the Communists stopped supplying the Greek rebels...
Reclamation is not the answer as far as the moderate Socialists in De Gasperi's government are concerned. Led by highbrowed Giuseppe Saragat, this faction has pressured the Christian Democrats toward a new plan of land redistribution by progressive stages. Some 8,760 landholders would be affected. The state would buy up to 50% of the big holdings for resale, on easy terms, to small peasants. In the face of latifondiari resistance, the program will be hard to put over...
...heavy responsibility. They have displayed shrewd political talent, but they still tend to approach economic problems as scholarly theorists rather than as practical politicians. They know that Italy's hope lies in improved farming methods and more industrialization, but they are not able to move fast enough toward their goals. Said one high-ranking American in Rome: "Unless we do more than we have in the past year, unless we move faster, we might as well walk out of here in 1953 [when EGA ends] and let the Communists take over...
...pointed out that not only is the Band trying to put all possible funds toward its projected trip to Stanford, but that many of the individual Band members would be unable to afford the three days' meals...