Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puffed up with conceit to see that he is no leader; he is just a front man for a gang of adventurers and torturers who disobey his most solemn orders under his nose and get away with it. A once great country and people take another long stride toward a Fascism that bids fair to combine the cruelty of Naziism with the bumbling incompetence of the Falange. If you think that France is going to be ruled by enlightened capitalists and a kind of Gallic modern republicanism, then your ignorance of the most elementary facts of French political and economic...
Authority struck back with a fiendish plan. Trains that mutineers refused to leave were rerouted to other destinations, leaving the rebels miles from home. Twelve sit-down rebels found that their train was going backward toward its point of origin. Huffed Brian Harbour, operations chief of London Transport: "We can't stand for chaos any longer. A few people refusing to leave a train can delay thousands." Detrainment, as he called the ejection of passengers, could not be avoided.* All this was shocking news to Londoners, long proud of the Underground's superiority to the New York subway...
Teetering on a one-vote majority in the Chamber of Deputies, Italy's Christian Democratic Premier Amintore Fanfani has often cast longing eyes toward the 84 left-wing Socialist seats controlled by wily, 67-year-old Pietro Nenni...
...Toward the end of 1958, the rebels began moving west. Ex-Dishwasher Camilo Cienfuegos marched a column into the hills of Camagŭey. In December the rebels launched a "battle for Santa Clara"-a city of 150,000 in Las Villas. A column led by Che Guevara quickly took the streets, the Batista army as quickly retreated to its fortress post, and in five days of shooting 60 died...
Headlines v. Facts. The U.S. Secretary of State, anxious to avoid the appearance of keeping his mind closed to new avenues toward peace, had made a logical answer to an "or else'' question. What he said was not new: in the Sept. 30 note to Moscow, the U.S. had offered to discuss "any other proposals genuinely designed to insure the reunification of Germany in freedom." But what Dulles said in his news conference last week was presented in much of the press as a positive statement suggesting an important change in U.S. policy...