Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faced god of the Romans, the Crimson is looking in both directions during the period preceding its straw vote (on the Roosevelt-Landon election) . . . editorials will appear by . . . two Crimson editorial writers of opposing views. The former tends to look in the general direction of Kansas; the latter veers toward Washington." (October...
...Vera M. Dean, Radcliffe '25, Research Director of the Foreign Policy Association, will bare the philosophy behind United States current policy toward Russia to a picked group of 50 students next term in a new course, Regional Studies...
Downhill. Things had gone from bad to worse for Gandhi, the pacifist, in recent months. India and Pakistan drifted toward war in Kashmir. Religious feelings still ran high from the autumn massacres in the Punjab; Sikh and Hindu refugees demanded revenge against Pakistan, and were forcing Moslems out of their homes. War fever caught on in Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan hopefully exclaimed: "Every Pakistani is an atom bomb in himself...
...Indian government, Patel led the "war party" which insisted on a "get-tough" policy toward Pakistan. He seemed inclined also to crack down on Moslems within India: "Mere declarations of loyalty to the Indian Union will not help Moslems at this critical juncture," said Patel. Later he became bolder, and darkly hinted at open war with Pakistan. Most Sikhs and many Hindus applauded Patel. Obliquely, Gandhi observed that Patel had "thorns on his tongue." Without warning, one day last week the Mahatma began to fast...
...group of private investors associated with me have been looking into RKO and United Artists with a view toward a possible investment...