Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unless he slams on his brakes and risks a pile-up from behind, the fourth driver in the left-turn line-and sometimes the fifth and sixth-rolls through the red toward a waiting menace of another color: one of the two blue Chevrolets manned by the town's three-man police force, whose chief occupation is to collect a $15 "bond" from each driver not willing to stick around town to be tried and fined $15 for running a light...
...Changed from the Southern-style, Anglo-Saxon name of Johnson's Station in honor of German Immigrant Karl Ludowici, 19th century roofing-tile manufacturer, who gave $1,000 toward a new school building...
...considerable damper on overt Communist activity. And at week's end U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold decided to fly to Laos himself to determine whether the situation warrants some kind of permanent, though informal U.N. surveillance-a measure the Laotians feel would go a long way toward keeping the Red aggressors on their own side of the jungle...
Three fundamental modern attitudes toward sin, writes Father Ivo Cisar, are the pessimist's "I cannot avoid sin because it is inevitable," the optimist's "I cannot sin because sin is a myth," and the expert's "I can sin because sin is only weakness." The Christian's attitude: "I can avoid...
Tenants will be able to say grace in a 400-seat cafeteria, park their cars underground, and reach Riverside Church and Union Theological Seminary by connecting passages. Says Dr. Roy G. Ross, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches: "It is the prayer of all who worked toward its creation that this will become more than a symbol of the growing spiritual unity of Protestant and Eastern Orthodox Churches in America...