Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though the austere new houses are quite an improvement over the old tin shanties, they not only cost eleven times as much to rent, for people whose pay ranges from $3 to $10 a month, but are regarded by the blacks as nothing more than one more ignominious step toward complete apartheid. When the mandate's administrator flatly refused even to receive a delegation from the location, the voteless blacks turned to the only weapon they had left-a boycott of the city-owned buses and beer halls...
...artist Bernardo Buontalenti for the son of Cosimo de Medici. One historian described it as "most singular and new, for not only did one see the heavens open and clouds descend while a quantity of angels flew about and came down to earth, but the innumerable figures all walked toward the holy manger, assuming attitudes which indeed seemed entirely natural...
...Seymour Lipton. When someone remarked that the house, with its redwood sheathing and massive chimney, was reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright, Nat Owings, a longtime aluminum-and-glass specialist, was taken aback, finally admitted: "Wright was a master of the organic philosophy of design. Perhaps anyone who reaches toward nature, or wants to meet nature on its own ground, would be bound to cross his path somewhere...
When Rogers reached 40,000 ft., he leveled off, and a ground radar guided him toward the 18 km. (eleven mile) course that is specified by the F.A.I. (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) in Paris. He lit the afterburner and opened the fuel control to the limit. Quickly, the ship accelerated past Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound). The F.A.I, specifies that an airplane trying for a straightaway, level-flight record must not climb or dive more than 164 ft. over the course. To respect these narrow limits at better than 1,500 m.p.h...
...more liberal attitude toward the U.S. specifically was overdue. U.S. imports are still restricted by quotas and high tariffs; e.g., Britain's tariffs and purchase taxes are so high that only 200 U.S. cars were imported last year. But the climate is changing. Says Common Market President Walter Hallstein: "We do not forget that the U.S. tolerated discrimination against its trade as a way of helping European recovery. Now that Europe has recovered, we certainly are not going to discriminate against...