Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Firmly endorsed and sometimes led the massive continental surge of U.S. allies in Europe through private-enterprise prosperity toward greater political-economic unity, symbolized by the six-nation European Common Market, which goes into effect this week...
...Encouraged and supported the military regimes that came to power in South Asia and the Sudan, accepting them as a means of orderly growth toward democracy...
...pressure at the pressure points, the Pentagon gained new important experience in the actual practice of cold war on both its fighting and its psychological fronts. The Army put up the U.S.'s first Explorer space satellites. The Air Force sent a lunar-probe rocket 80,000 miles toward the moon, at year's end fired one Atlas intercontinental missile 4,000 miles, another the full distance of 6,300 miles, still another into orbit, brought the Thor IRBM into the training stage and the hands of combat troops. The Navy sent the nuclear submarine Nautilus under...
...eyes of most Europeans, the likely gains far outweigh the risks. Return to convertibility, said Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, "is an outward and visible sign of the comeback of Europe in world affairs." More important yet, it went a long way toward establishing the climate of economic freedom in which international trade and investment have historically flourished. And it was only by establishing such a climate that mid-20th-century Europe, shorn of its empires, could achieve long-term prosperity and political health...
Faced with the two-pistol technique, the panicky leaders of the Fourth Republic rapidly wilted. "Each day," complained ex-Premier Georges Bidault, "our position toward De Gaulle changes. Yesterday we were standing; today we are on our knees; tomorrow we will be on our bellies...