Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn, said the women, 100 uniformed fellaghas had surrounded the village. They had seized the local policeman, cut off his hands, gouged out his eyes, then killed him and his five children. Then they rounded up every male over 15 and herded them off down the rocky ravine toward Kasba Mechta...
Canada's election campaign raced toward voting day on June 10 with seemingly little doubt-according to pollsters -that Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's Liberals would extend their 22-year reign. But the Tory opposition party, aroused by earnest Prairie Lawyer John Diefenbaker, threatened to walk off with a sizable chunk of the comfortable Liberal majority in the House of Commons...
...never been called a monkey," chattered she. "But I've often been called a young whale. Of course, I'm just as much a beast as Farouk is, but I'm naturally so, or at least I hope so!" Have her feelings mellowed toward Fatso? "Humph! This man Farouk is no good at all!" ∙∙∙ Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger gallantly suggested that separate but equal "gymnastic and natatorial" facilities be installed in the new Senate Office Building for Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Though barred from using the Senate...
...same time the Kadar government promised its "benevolence" toward the church, particularly concerning the right to teach. The church, for its part, pledged support of a new organization called Labor for Peace to replace Horvath's old National Committee. The new organization will include the peace priests, but also Hungary's bishops and other clergy untainted by past collaboration. The two bishops imprisoned in retaliation against the excommunication decree will be released...
...program is just plain old-fashioned dumping, and the U.S. has laws to punish other countries who try to do this in the U.S. Now, said Fleming, "by espousing international dumping as the key procedure for liquidation of cotton surpluses, we have initiated a reaction from these principles, back toward an isolationism which, if adopted by other nations, will play havoc with our export markets...