Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybe these "hillbillies" have not yet mastered the operation of modern plumbing -assuming it is available in the slums into which they are "compressed," but I find it hard to believe, however, that their regard for law suffers by comparison with the prevailing Chicago attitude toward law. As a descendant of a long line of hillbillies, I say let us city slickers go a little easy on them as they settle in among...
Sounded out informally, Nate Twining refused, looked instead toward retirement. Asked by President Eisenhower to become chairman. Soldier Twining accepted...
...carried out. It is, of course, a natural right and duty for any state exposed to attack to make sure that the bases which are set up for the purpose of attack be liquidated at once. No one can expect anything else. The blow which would be directed toward destroying the aggressor's bases would inevitably hit much greater areas. One hydrogen bomb [can destroy] a radius of up to several hundred kilometers. One might ask what would happen if several such bombs were used...
...progress toward economic freedom is likely to be slow, is already being fought by Minister of Industry Joaquin Planell Riera, who runs the state-owned industries. At first the government may give private businessmen a share in its consumer-goods and service industries, such as textile plants and the Iberia Air Lines, while holding fast to shipyards, auto plants, utilities and oil refineries...
Funny Face (Paramount) is one of those big Technicolor musicals that stagger toward the culminating nuptials like a determined but overequipped bride. The burden includes something old: Fred Astaire, now 56 and at last beginning to show it. Something new: Audrey Hepburn in her first musical. Something borrowed: six songs by George Gershwin, four of them from the 1927 musical of the same name. And something blue: the audience...