Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...examination ever made of our relations in the hemisphere. The man who did this job was the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, who submitted an exhaustive report in November 1953. Dr. Eisenhower's recommendations on hemisphere partnership became and still are the basis of U.S. policy toward Latin America...
...people in the U.S. cannot export prosperity to the 175 million people in our sister republics. There is only one really effective way to expand our trade, and that is to increase our imports from the area. The Eisenhower Administration has been notably successful in defending its trade policy toward Latin America, despite an annual barrage of proposed laws, tariffs and other restrictions designed to eliminate some competitive Latin American product...
...Soviet Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov swung a sword at his longtime bond with Dwight Eisenhower. Asked by newsmen for his view of Ike's new Middle East doctrine, Marshal Zhukov declared that though the new policy may not be Eisenhower's own idea, "it is a step toward war." Then he said deliberately: "Eisenhower is my old friend as a soldier [but] I do not know what is left of him as a soldier-whether he is still the same...
...smaller nuclear devices are generally exploded on steel towers inside a ring of screening mountains north of Las Vegas. The towers are vaporized by the heat, and the atomic fireball, touching the ground for an instant, drags up toward the stratosphere a large amount of radioactive dust. Both the dust and the vaporized steel must fall to earth somewhere, and the piercing outcry from places where they have fallen has made the AEC jumpy...
...much harm to the Protestant churches of Europe . . . The present emphasis on the sacraments in U.S. churches tends to glorify the churchgoer more than Christ." Barth cites four examples of sacramentalist tendencies: infant baptism, the tendency to entrust church decisions to officials and committees rather than congregations, Protestant leanings toward the Roman Catholic concept of the church as mediator of grace rather than as witness of grace. Furthermore, "we have largely the wrong idea of the Communion. In Biblical times the Lord's Supper was interpreted as an act by which God shows that he reaches...