Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story seeks to make Dr. Wilson the villain in the integration story at our university. Under his leadership, the university has moved firmly and solidly, without fanfare, toward full integration of its students...
...concept of sin. During much of their history, Americans did not give a pin for theology, preferring to view sin more in terms of hellfirers and heartwarmers in the mold of Jonathan Edwards or Billy Graham. In recent decades there has been a new, strong trend toward really heavy-duty thinking about the nature of God and man. Probably the deepest Protestant thought on these matters now goes on in the brain of Paul Tillich, an existentialist-minded theologian who is trying to do for Protestantism what Thomas Aquinas did for Roman Catholicism in the 13th century. For a report...
...passion for headlines- were now looking upon him with a less jaundiced eye. Harold Stassen was keeping a tight lip and competently going about negotiations as delicate as any in U.S. history: to see whether the Russians are indeed willing to take a concrete, self-enforcing first step toward the reduction of arms...
Only Trust. Amid all the casualness and general relaxation there were still some notable dangers abroad. One was that a new deal on disarmament might set a trend toward coexistence in Europe, i.e., accepting the division of Germany and the Russian conquest of the satellites as "a finality." Another danger was that Britain's decision to sell strategic goods to Red China might set a trend toward co-existence in Asia, i.e., recognition and respectability for Red China, a thought that the State Department speedily squashed (see below). But looming over the dangers was the fact that...
...billion in aid to its key Asian allies. The U.S. has had more in mind than providing its allies with a shield against Red Communist expansion. The ultimate aim: to prove that, given security and political stability, a non-Communist Asia can simultaneously solve its economic problems and work toward improvement and independence of the individual-and thus give the lie to the Communist myth that the only answer to Asian poverty is totalitarianism...