Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live like the Pygmies!" He urged them to come back to civilization, gave them ten days to come out of the jungle or be treated as rebels. By regrouping huts near roads, where they can be guarded, he hopes to maintain order, proceed with the slow evolution toward real and responsible independence. Last week, as M'bida's grace period expired, hundreds straggled back from the jungle. The UPC retaliated by burning half a dozen villages, killing scores of terrorized men and women...
Elsewhere, other teams edged toward the end of an upset-ridden season: ¶ A last-period pass bounced off two Notre Dame defenders before Iowa End Don Norton finally caught it and beat the Irish...
...load-carriers for long ranges than ballistic missiles are. but he thinks that skip missiles will get too much heating and jolting during their violent acrobatics. Glide missiles will have to contend with heat only, and he thinks they can take it. When they speed through the high atmosphere toward a target 5,000 miles away, the temperature of their skin may reach about 1,600° F. This is a bright red-hot, but Eggers seems to think that proper material and careful design can bring the missile safely through its ordeal of fire...
...woman and a sane and knowledgeable neighborhood doctor. Yet, even in Siobhan McKenna's severe, unbending portrayal, Margaret seems something other than a dispassionate psychological study. Playwright Wishengrad has identified her with something in life itself, perhaps with something that gnaws at his own insides. He pushes on toward glib and rather grandiose tragedy, toward loud-pedaled moments that never quite ring true...
...this leads to a lessened response toward the characters, and to a confusion of values in the play. What exactly is east, and what is west, in Wishengrad's pessimistic geography? What is pathology, and what is sin, and what is determinism? In any case, the more he tries to expand or universalize, the more special seems his story...