Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authorization bill was an important Eisenhower victory because the bill was at the heart of the Administration's long overdue plan to give new sense and direction to foreign-aid spending. Still to come is an appropriations measure to provide the actual funds for fiscal 1958. Looking toward that, Democrat Johnson was cautious: "It may be that some downward adjustments can be made. This is a problem which we can solve when we consider the appropriations bill." But if Johnson foresaw a problem, he and his fellows also had created a precedent. By taking their stand against Morse...
Reaching Hands. The static line was hopeless. Next the aircraft crewmen put out a rope. Flugum grabbed it, and they pulled him three feet toward safety before the force of the airstream loosened his grip. They lowered the rope again, and Flugum tied it around his waist. Then, through a sweating two hours, the crewmen inched Flugum up with rope and static line. Finally he was at the hatch, his elbows almost in. A crewman seized each hand, a third grabbed at his fatigues. Flugum could not help himself, the sweat-slick hands of the rescuers could not hold...
...Indians, having seen this sort of pride-punctured squabbling before, turned with a sigh toward the quietude of their own homes...
...teen-agers started back to town after the ceremony, shouting "Algeria is French!"-"Death to the Assassins!" Joined by other Europeans-gangs of poor Italians and Spaniards from the working-class district of Bab el Oued and members of the locally recruited Territorial army-they surged through Algiers streets toward the Casbah. Coolly checking window stickers of parked cars, they passed over those with European names, overturned and burned cars bearing Moslem names. They smashed Moslem shops, tore up the seats and ripped down the screen in a Moslem cinema, burned open market stalls. One crowd of boys and girls...
Mondrian reduced painting to its barest bones in 1931 when he painted a canvas composed of only a white background with two black lines. He was moving toward more complicated designs when, with World War II inevitable, he went first to London, then in 1940 to New York, where he finished his study in balanced imbalance, Place de la Concorde (see color page). Entranced by the glitter of Manhattan, he then set to work on his last two major paintings, Broadway Boogie-Woogie and the unfinished Victory Boogie-Woogie, which sparkled with segmented, syncopated color. They made a bright closing...