Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of recent statements and events in the U.S., especially Truman's appointment of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State, led Western Europeans to assume that U.S. policy toward Russia would become softer. The assumption was wispy; nobody knew whether U.S. policy would soften or not. But the European reaction to the assumption was real. Much of the recent stiffness went out of the man-on-the-street's backbone...
...kept up his sequence of wearying refutations. "I am convinced," he added, "that only a person who is certain of the justness of his position can stand up under 34 days of unjust and insincere attack. I have attempted to look upon this situation with a feeling of sympathy toward those men on the Council who hold their positions more important than integrity...
...tagged on the jaw, slugged with a blackjack, kicked in the head and punched orie-eyed in a boxing bout. Since most of this mauling is done by thugs who work for the husband of his beautiful, frozen-faced girl (Alexis Smith), poor dear Dane suffers without a whimper. Toward the end, there is some talk of sending him off to a hospital to have his head examined-an idea which might have saved a lot of trouble earlier in the story...
...another lyric he expresses his bedrock feeling toward human beings which goes beyond any theory about them...
...blizzard or a fire interfered with their duty. And year after year students quietly walked four blocks out of their way every time they wanted to pass through the south margin of the Yard after dark. The great circle route became a habit; it was well on its way toward tradition...