Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your June 15 article, "Spain: Nation in Trouble," you state: "Wisely spent, the $2 billion pumped into Spain [by the U.S.] during the past eight years might have gone far toward putting the country on its feet. But bureaucrats went on an ill-conceived spending spree...
...early politicking toward the 1960 Democratic National Convention, the Democratic Party's 35 Governors have been rated more as pawns than potential kingmakers. This campaign, said the pundits, belonged either to twice-defeated Adlai Stevenson or to one of four U.S. Senators: Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Missouri's Stuart Symington or Texas' Lyndon Johnson. But as candidates and their hardheaded professionals get down to counting delegates, they will find the Governors in command of most delegations fully aware of their separate and collective bargaining power and-in some cases -firm believers that...
...four-engined plane, bearing the hammer and sickle on the fuselage, bore down through the haze toward a runway at New York International Airport, then pulled up again for a second approach and a safe, deft landing. Airport attendants and assembled dignitaries craned for a close look as it taxied up. The TU-114 turboprop was not only the first Russian jet to land in New York but had just made the 4,660 miles from Moscow in a nonstop...
...Looking toward the 1960 Olympic Games, the U.S. mustered its best track stars at the National Amateur Athletic Union meet in Boulder, Colo., and found them good. Most impressive was the depth of U.S. track prowess: when a champion faltered, there were eager contenders ready and able to take his place. Items...
...fond, mellow mood eventually turns sour. Kanin. carefully foreshadowing, leads the reader toward what should be a shocker of an ending. The combo folded, the narrator recalls, after its thunderous Negro drummer died of too many pep pills and too much whisky. Slowly, 25 years later, the sax player is made aware of a horrifying truth: one of the white bandsmen, obsessed with race hatred, deliberately fed the ailing Negro the poison that would kill...