Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty-nine years ago, on a September day, the armies of Vittorio Emanuele II marched toward the gates of Rome. The city's weary old ruler, Pope Pius IX, ordered his Papal zouaves not to fire upon the invaders. He shut himself up in the Vatican, there to remain to the end of his days. The House of Savoy moved into the Quirinal, which had belonged to the Popes. Pius IX and four of his successors, unceasingly protesting their "despoliation," remained in voluntary imprisonment until the Lateran Treaties of 1929. They and their partisans - to Roman society, "Blacks...
After his death Lenin was sanctified by Stalin. Joseph Stalin has gone a long way toward deifying himself while alive. No flattery is too transparent, no compliment too broad for him. He became the fountain of all Socialist wisdom, the uncontradictable interpreter of the Marxist gospel...
...Finns told tales of Russians freezing to death, stuck in the snow. They did not chase the fleeing Russians far because they wanted to save their men, and the weather was fighting for them. By week's end the Russians were in full flight toward Kola, and the Finns announced triumphantly that there was not a live Russian in the Arctic region south of Salmij...
Merlin Hall Aylesworth was a young Colorado lawyer, just three years out of Denver University's law school and 25 years old, when he got his appointment as attorney of Larimer County in 1911. Then his interest began to swing from law, toward business. In 1918 he resigned his post to become vice president of Utah Power & Light...