Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Women! Pietro's uncle the priest gave his blessing as the women started out, and when they reached the bridge, nine members of Francesca's class of illiterates were on hand-but not to bid her goodbye. "Stop!" one of them ordered, "or we shoot." Francesca leaped toward the bridge, but one of the men caught her arm and dragged her back. The other women tried to free her, but could not. While three of the attackers stood with leveled guns, two of the bullies dragged the schoolteacher into the wood. Six days later, the carabinieri found...
...progress. But in one small corner of northwest Borneo, thanks to the cooperation of a Britain grown wiser through past mistakes and an Oriental potentate with a social conscience, the discovery of oil has set a tiny nation of some of the world's most primitive people rocketing toward a prosperous future on smoothly lubricated wheels...
...content to live his own life surrounded by middle-class comforts, with a single wife and eight children in a simple, tasteful villa that would go unnoticed in a better U.S. suburb. "I want," he says a little stiffly, "to direct all my energies and resources toward the betterment of my people...
These subjects are treated with by members themselves during the summer session, with a view toward giving leaders from Asia and Europe an opportunity to gain insight into this country, according to Seminar officials...
...shriek ever more loudly until the limit of intelligibility has been left far behind. But Hyman is careful to adjust to the big time scale of this process, so that the proper prolonged Beethovenian crescendo results. For, contrary to the popular conception, Othello is not by nature disposed toward jealousy: he is "one not easily jealous, but being wrought perplex'd in the extreme." He says of his wife, for example, "I'll tear her all to pieces." Most actors would here face the balcony and bellow their guts out. But Hyman, realizing that at this point in the drama...