Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autocratic king who is pushing his people toward democracy is the West's best hope in troubled North Africa. Dressed in immaculate white djellabah edged with brocaded silk, Morocco's Sultan Mohammed V received TIME'S Frank White and Stanley Karnow in the throne room of his palace at Rabat, chatted with them under the ceremonial eyes of green-cloaked, turbaned guards armed with medieval halberds. He smilingly pointed out that independent Morocco, before the French took it over, was one of the first countries to grant diplomatic recognition to the young United States, added that...
...rose to make his anti-Eisenhower speech in an almost empty Senate chamber last week, he pulled out most of the stops that conservative Republican orators had pulled in 20 years of speeches against Democratic Administrations. For the first four years, he said, the Eisenhower Administration had made progress toward the goals of economy and efficiency enunciated in 1952. Now he feared it had been gripped by some "strange and mysterious force," had been lured by the "siren song of socialism," was tending toward "squanderbust government . . . economic inebriation . . . bloated government...
Although students will still have to deal individually with business agents of the member unions, general home office approval of the plan would greatly improve the dispositions of the member unions toward accepting students, Burke added...
...easy to see why Worthy does not feel kindly, personally or racially, toward official Washington. He feels that the State Department, through security officer Robert Cartwright, attempted to smear him by implying that his conscientious objection in 1944 was a draft-dodging device. Worthy believes that this is simply clouding the issue of his constitutional right to a passport and was very gratified to hear that Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming had said "Worthy's reputation as a citizen is unsullied, and the State Department owes him an apology...
Although NSA membership is valuable for its national benefits, Harvard has traditionally found itself less apathetic toward the international program of the organization. Harvard students, in fact, were responsible for establishing the NSA International Commission in 1947. Four of the organization's nine international vice-presidents have come from Harvard, which has been the most influential member in deciding international policy...