Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slow start which sent many of the fans downstairs to watch the swimming meet characterized the entire first half, except for a brief Crimson spurt toward the end. Trailing 24-22 with five minutes to go, the varsity began to utilize a good fast break and pulled ahead, 30 to 25. But the Bruins quickly closed the gap, and went off at halftime on the short end of a 32-31 score...
...protested editorially against President Carlos Garcia's recent decision to ban Bell from the Philippines for reporting the corruption and increasing anti-Americanism of Garcia's government (TIME, Feb. 2). Said the Times: "The broad principles of press freedom are threatened by the President's attitude toward the Bell case." In almost 15 years as one of TIME'S top correspondents, Jim Bell has suffered just about every vicissitude of the reporter's trade, including near mobbing at the hands of an Iranian mob that mistook him for Winston Churchill. But the charge that...
...flying a course from Trabzon to Van, Turkey in high winds and bad weather, the C-130 had strayed over the Turkish "fence" into Communist territory, possibly confused by high-strength directional signals from Soviet radio stations. Following the vectors from their own ground radar stations, the Russians sped toward the target area, barking pilots' combat chatter over the radio. The monitors caught virtually every word that mattered...
...target. Attack! I am 201, I am attacking the target ... Attack, attack, 218, attack . . . The target is a transport, four-engined. I am attacking the target . . . Target speed is 300 [kilometers-186 m.p.h.. I am going along with it. It is turning toward the fence . . . The target is burning. There's a hit . . . The target is banking . . . Open fire . . . 218, are you attacking? Yes, yes . . . The target is burning . . . The tail assembly is falling off the target . . . I am in front of the target . . . Look at him. He will not get away. He is already falling...
...school is the place for much elementary science instruction, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, asserted. Better teaching and more skillful organization are the methods which are in order for colleges, he added. "It is high time colleges in this country grew up and took a more adult attitude toward improving instruction...