Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead the way toward a rule of law, to discover the principles basic to all free men. to apply to those principles the lessons of experience and the guide of reason is the great task of lawyers. It was in that spirit and toward that end that the president of the American Bar Association conceived of Law Day, U.S.A. "The atomic and hydrogen bombs." says Charles Rhyne, "have attuned the people of the world to an overwhelming desire for peace, which is probably stronger than any such desire in all history...
...being filled with what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status of the satellites, the reunification of Germany. ¶Foreign Minister Gromyko's formal charge that the U.S. Strategic Air Command constitutes "a threat to peace," because it sends bombers armed with hydrogen weapons flying toward Russia whenever an unexplained "blip" appears on U.S. radar screens, proved a dismal flop before the U.N. Security Council. Since the U.S. was easily able to prove the safeguards in its "Fail Safe" technique-which prevents any U.S. plane from actually proceeding to a Russian target without personal orders from the President...
...Certain comrades." said Tito, had cast suspicion on the Socialist character of Yugoslavia. "There is talk that a tactical attitude should be taken toward Yugoslavia, that she should be re-educated and again brought into camp ... It would be very useful if these comrades would finally abandon such absurd tendencies...
...Jews who still live in Russia are warned to merge themselves completely in Soviet society (while still carrying documents designating them as Jews) and are discouraged from their own cultural identity. In recent months the world Jewish press has been full of anxious debate about the changing Soviet attitude toward Jews. Last February a British Communist, Professor Hyman Levy, charged that "today there is not a single Jew in the Central Committee, and indeed no Jew in any high position." Last month French Journalist Serge Groussard asked Khrushchev about reports that even in Stalin's old Jewish colony...
...issue brought almost everybody out swinging-Christians, Jews and unbelievers, graduates, undergraduates, faculty members and plain kibitzers. "The only interpretation," snapped Jerome Davis Greene, '96, longtime Harvard overseer, in a letter to the Harvard Crimson, "is that in spite of generous gifts from Jews toward the erection of the Church, and in spite of the sacrifice of Jewish lives of which it was a memorial,* the gifts were somehow impressed with a trust that forbade any contamination of the premises that might compromise the claims of Protestant Christianity to a monopoly of ultimate truth." Wrote Psychology Professor Jerome Seymour...