Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organizational meeting of the HSA last Fall, called to explain the purposes of the agency to the students, the ten per cent rate was called "a contribution toward the overhead." It was explained as a necessity for covering the operating costs of existing agencies and the expense of setting up additional ones...
...boycott, an Assembly was elected without a single member of the opposition represented, and France was able to keep control of defense, finance, labor and education, as well as the High Commissioner's power to veto any legislation. Last year, dissatisfied with Togoland's progress toward independence, the U.N. politely but firmly ordered a general election to be held under U.N. supervision...
When the Explorers' orbits were carrying them near the earth, they both reported reasonable numbers of cosmic rays, around 30 per second, but as they climbed up toward their apogees the count came faster. At 1,100 kilometers (684 miles) the tubes registered as high as 140 counts per second. Then a strange thing happened. As the satellites climbed even higher, the transmitters reported no rays at all. During orbit after orbit the counter of Explorer III was silent for 15 minutes. When the satellites swung down again to lower levels, they resumed reporting reasonable numbers of cosmic rays...
...scientists agreed, a great deal of space exploration will be possible in a few years. Dr. J. Halcombe Laning Jr. of M.I.T. described an unmanned vehicle designed to photograph Mars. It would carry optical devices to observe the sun and the stars. It could watch Mars too, and steer toward it by means of small rockets. Swinging around Mars, it could take pictures through a camera showing objects 500 ft. long; then it would return to earth with its cargo of information. The whole vehicle, said Dr. Laning, need weigh only 300 Ibs. He thinks it could be tossed...
...affront was not subjectively aimed at Mr. Nixon (although objectively speaking he got the worst of it) but at the government and people of the United States. Unfortunately, the hatred felt by many students in Peru and the hostility felt by most South Americans toward this nation is blamed on the South Americans, not the North Americans. Even Mr. Nixon, who should realize by now that this nation is not altogether beloved below the equator, seemed to place the blame for the San Marcos incident on the Peruvians: "This day will live in infamy in the history of San Marcos...