Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should the Communist states set an example? Tito was not dogmatic ("The theoretical question . . . has not been worked out"), but he allowed vaguely that they should try to "draw together" toward eventual unification...
...alas, this dilemma is compounded by the Cominform's economic boycott of Yugoslavia. In the exchange of goods, Tito disclosed, "a stand is taken toward Yugoslavia by the people's democracies which is worse than their stand toward capitalist countries...
...consultant for Reader's Digest) has tackled the task of exploring Europe's view of the U.S. His findings appeared last week in As Others See Us (Doubleday; $3). Visson reaches the conclusion that a lot is wrong with Europe's vision. He writes: "Europe looks toward America with such great hopes! But at the same time she harbors such great and .. . absurd suspicions...
...were met on the open road by a huge, red-cheeked adjutant who swung down from a truck loaded with heavily armed soldiers. He would escort us to the command post of Lieut. General Li Mi, commander of the Thirteenth Army Group. He pointed north toward a hill rising like the hump of a razorback hog out of the fields. The truck wallowed off the road through a shallow ditch and followed a telephone wire stretched across the parched, lumpy land, already sown with winter wheat...
...jeep trailed behind the general's as we ground in low gear across the rough ground toward a village headquarters less than three miles from the front. Jeep lights flicked on and off as the drivers tried to avoid the deeper holes. An elliptical orange moon popped over the horizon. As we neared the village we passed an artillery position. The dark forms of tanks loomed up against the sky. A 105-mm. gun directly in front suddenly cut loose, its red flash silhouetting for an instant the crouched figures of the gun crew. A pungent smell of gunpowder...