Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that a limited resumption of Red China trade is inevitable-certainly for Japan and Britain, to say nothing of other trading nations. He did so at considerable risk of weakening an important U.S. position : in much of Asia, such a move would be regarded as a first step toward an eventual reversal of Washington's "tough China" policy-a step which the Peking-style China Lobby will do its best to stretch into diplomatic recognition of the Peking regime, its seating in the United Nations and the consequent downgrading of the Chiang Kai-shek government...
...status-of-forces agreements, in spite of the ruckus over Specialist Third Class Girard in Japan, are working out amazingly well. Status-of-forces agreements have contributed in six years of steady growth toward easing the tensions between allies, and have added up to a remarkable good-sense show of international justice from which the U.S. and its allies alike have benefited. One Girard case provides an uproar in the U.S. and Japan, for example, but 5,544 other U.S.-Japanese cases that came up last year worked out smoothly. Over a longer term, fewer than half a dozen...
...Wane. Toward week's end "Judge" Smith's balm began to wear off. Attempting to toss out the bill on a technicality, Smith was firmly overruled by House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Better still, unofficial nose counts by whips of both parties found all but about 40 of the 200 Republicans and more than half the 234 Democrats still prepared to vote down the jury-trial amendment. But as debate continued toward this week's crucial voting, a new wedge was driven in the pro-civil-rights ranks. The driver: no less an advocate than Harlem...
Along the streets more bodies were piling up. Drunken riders lost control, pitched off on their heads and lay still. Outside Angels Camp a girl riding behind her husband was killed when he slammed into a gasoline tanker. Two hoodlum outriders headed toward the fair grounds, the A.M.A. territory. They charged a formation of six A.M.A. riders just topping a rise in the road. All eight crunched together in a pile of twisted metal and spinning wheels. When the wheels slowed, two of the eight were dying. Carried to an ambulance with his foot sheared off, A.M.A.'s Richard...
...there are other factors which make the post-war student different--increasing academic pressure caused by rising applications; the difficulty of securing admission to graduate schools; and the competitive bidding carried on by science and industry for top graduates. These are only the more obvious forces which compelled students toward a more serious concern with academic life, although it might be argued that the concern was more pre-professional in nature than academic...