Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hammer") Molotov, one of the old hands who prepared the Russian Revolution of 1917. Another old durable to go was Khrushchev's most influential industrial opponent, beetle-browed Lazar Kaganovich, the only Jew in the top Soviet hierarchy and the man who originally gave Khrushchev his start toward the big time...
...power rivalries, and that its professional elite would act in its own right only in case of a patriotic crisis of leadership. Nonetheless, for the first time, U.S. agencies in Washington considered it a possibility that three to five years from now, given further convulsions, Russia might move toward a military dictatorship...
...asked the questions for Britain's ITN, wanted to know how Nasser reconciled his stand against Communism at home with his overseas dealing with Russia. "Well," said the dictator, "local Communism is illegal, but dealing with Russia is another thing." Confronted with a direct question on Egyptian policy toward Israel-whether he really wanted to see its destruction as a state-Nasser tried desperately to fight his way between the Charybdis of a yes that would please Arabs and the Scylla of a no that would mollify the West. "There is a difference," he said, squirming visibly, "between...
...serology laboratory. A shy, brilliant man who can rarely get through a night without waking to jot down some idea that has popped into his mind, Kahn developed a test for syphilis that largely replaced the cumbersome Wassermann, in 1951 published a theory that could be a major step toward the early detection of disease. His "universal blood reaction" theory: a healthy person's system produces antibodies in a definite, ascertainable pattern. In a sick person antibodies form faster and in different patterns. If science can determine how the pattern changes from health to various diseases, doctors will...
...things unsaid." For one thing, the church gains in suburbia have not all been in numbers and money. "Within the suburban church there are more people listening attentively to the preaching of the Word who are taking part in administering the sacraments of the church, who are moving steadily toward lives of Christian devotion, and who are carrying the mission of the church through education and missionary endeavor...