Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ways. Neither side could hope to convert the other, but more realistic diplomatic dealings may be possible once that pragmatic fellow, Nikita Khrushchev, sees for himself that the U.S. is big, prosperous, and growing, as well as friendly to those who do not menace her, and unitedly resolute toward those...
...Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover's Polish birthplace, Makowa Village, and recalling that two Polish glass blowers had been among the first settlers at Jamestown, Va., the excluded crowds waved and shouted beyond the airport gates. And when Nixon's Russian ZIS limousine started out of Babice toward the city, all semblance of formality disappeared...
Standing erect, with hands stretched out toward his admirers, Nixon was hit repeatedly by bouquet after bouquet. So heavy was the rain of flowers that four times the ZIS had to be swept clean of them to leave room for its occupants...
...asleep jerks; 25 had them about three times a year; the rest reported increasing frequency up to more than once a week. Finally, Dr. Oswald had some himself. One was accompanied by the sensation of a sudden flash of light, another by "the sight of half a brick hurtling toward my face...
...hurdle the jagged mountain peaks concealed in thick cumulus clouds. Settling his sandaled feet on the rudder, he flew with one hand as the other fingered a heavy gold cross hanging from his neck. After a short flight-over forbidding jungles, the pilot banked his plane, swooped down toward a clearing and made a smooth touchdown on another makeshift airfield. There to greet him were the local priest, a handful of native sisters, and hordes of near-naked natives. The pilot: lean, sandy-haired Bishop Leo Arkfeld, 47, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Wewak Vicariate...