Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only vital to U.S. defense but challenging to all that the U.S. stands for. Almost overnight Washington sensed a sudden and dramatic change in the political climate. The White House glowed in a new mood of confidence. Congress talked and acted with an apparent new sense of responsibility. Hostility toward the Administration's foreign-aid program all but vanished, and many a critic scurried to get right with...
...five-year-old, middle-income suburb of Ruskin Heights on the southeast edge of the city, few of the trim houses (average price $12,000) boasted cellars. Worried parents herded children toward the nearest neighbor with a basement, and as many as 40 people huddled together in these rare dugouts. Not everyone heard the warnings, and not everyone who heard heeded them. By 7 p.m., when the twister swirled over the state line with a roar like a highballing freight train, the 16-store Ruskin Heights shopping center was dotted with evening shoppers. The tornado ripped a path 70 miles...
...tentative step toward solving the problem of professionalism in college athletics has been taken by the Big Ten. That Conference, long a great power in intercollegiate sport, has adopted the Ivy League concept of scholarships on a need basis...
...attitude of the University toward its employees seems to be as important an issue in the present controversy as the effectiveness of HUERA representation. "Whether it's because of or in spite of the HUERA, we've always been given the breaks," one maintenance employee notes...
...University has followed a policy of strict neutrality during the AFL campaign. "We prefer that they remain neutral," Sullivan says, adding that his Local is neutral toward the University. "You can't call a guy a bum, and then go in and ask him for raises," he explains...