Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seconds later President Eisenhower was back at his desk, starting one of his busier weeks after an upset stomach had laid him low for a day and set statesmen, stock-market investors and plain people around the world to looking anxiously toward Washington...
...every program and get perspiration on my palms." Will he continue in TV after his costly ($270,000), four-week stint for ABC? "If we can get some institutional sponsors, such as a bank or steel company. And if I can find more of an inner sense of direction toward the medium-that is, get a green light from the Lord...
...study, play an occasional game of tennis and stroll about the hills. But he had had his effect on U.S. education-in the great-books seminars that sprang up, in the whole effort to cut across academic fields and search for the unity of knowledge, in the trend toward giving college students more independence and in the new interest in liberal education for adults. Last week Amherst found the old pioneer still the philosophical idealist, trying to find "the meaning and purpose of the total human scene." "Courage, beauty, truth, freedom, justice, honesty,'' he once said, "are still...
Nobody Tried. After establishing a sudsy rapport with the proprietors, Strickland would head for the action, which, he soon discovered, was usually near the men's room. "I'd just walk on back toward the men's room," he explains, "maybe acting a little unsteady, and then push on into the gambling room...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Alfred Walter Frank Blunt, 77, outspoken Bishop of Bradford (1931-55), whose mild-seeming remarks, in December 1936, that King Edward VIII (now the Duke of Windsor) should give "more positive signs" of knowing his duty toward religion sparked the already charged atmosphere of political crisis over the Wally Simpson romance, hastened the King's decision to abdicate; after long illness; at his home near York, England...