Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply gone to Manhattan's Pier 88, bought a 25? visitor's ticket to the Batory, and gone aboard. When the ship got past Ambrose Light, he reported to the purser and paid for passage. "I gave the U.S. authorities a chance to correct their uncivilized attitude toward my person, and to stop using me as a bogey man," said Gerhart. "But [they] did not take the chance. I have another purpose in life than to be watched...
...last week when Willie Lurye went into the ground-floor lobby of a Chinatown loft to make a phone call. Traffic was heavy in the building and nobody noticed anything wrong until the man at the cigar stand saw Willie come out of the booth, walk with painful erectness toward the door, call out "Tony" in a strangled voice. Tony was Tony Milletti, another organizer...
...across the Whangpoo River, and the glow of burning villages farther to the north. At week's end, Red General Chen Yi's forces, driving relentlessly from the west and southwest, were within eight miles of the city. Simultaneously, two Red armies from the northwest knifed in toward Woosung Fort at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers. At one point on the Woosung defense perimeter, Nationalist troops threw back the attackers after a bitter hand-to-hand battle...
Vargas, who began his presidency as a social reformer, soon moved toward dictatorship. Before he was through, he was ruling by decree, had established an ironbound press censorship, and jailed his critics. Three times Dutra saved Vargas from overthrow. He got his reward. By 1935, he was a General of Division; the next year, Minister...
...happy," he says, "if I can contribute just a little that will take some more of the gamble out of farming. Subsidies and price supports will never do that. The only thing they contribute is progress toward socialized farming-and that's the worst thing that could happen to this country...