Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance of this intellectual reticence is in the predominating attitude of open acceptance toward ex-President Harry S. Truman, Buckley observed. Even "perceptive" men like Dean Acheson and Adlai Stevenson "fail to stand firm in judiciously assessing Mr. Truman's personal limitations." Instead, they and others yield to "transcendent considerations" and "continue to undermine the standards of honesty and courage and perception by which nations flourish...
...House-members moved into their multi-million dollar hotels on the river-front, the commuters were left with nothing but their bookbags, and those who went home at night were regarded as black sheep in the Harvard herd. In the early Thirties a professor sensationally described College policy toward "the untouchables" as "resignation under defeat," and an official recently active in Dudley affairs observed that, until the past few years, the Administration has "seemed to turn its head and hope that commuters would go away...
...effort to determine the attitudes of commuters toward their center--and themselves, a one page poll was sent to over 3500 non-residents. To date, about a third have been returned. While no precise statistics can be derived from such a sampling, most of the questionnaire was concerned not with numbers, but with reactions and suggestions. For these questions, the commuters were faced simply with a blank line...
...Apathy toward political issues and stereotyped views of parties are strong components of the voter's psychology, according to preliminary findings of the Ward 4 survey, a joint project of the Harvard Young Republican and Eisenhower Clubs...
Eisenhower also said that he hopes for progress toward settling East-West differences at the big power foreign ministers' conference opening next week in Geneva. "If anything does develop that enlarges the hope for decreasing world tensions," he said, then "a summit meeting would become almost a foregone conclusion...