Word: towards
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...those who are helping with campaign teams say their primary motives lie in candidates' platforms more than personal ties and in a desire to work toward progress through the council...
...more you are diminished." Bak varies the notion of family lineage in From Generation to Generation through a series. An elder from the village of Vilna, gazes upon versions of himself, his body decreasing in size, each time preserving his old age. The ancestors bless their descendents but stare toward the earth, without joy or life. It is as if these men have always been old, but one cannot tell which man is the oldest. Each generation, now with the knowledge of the atrocities of the Holocaust, will continue to age with experience and the memory of an inexplicably violent...
Franklin Sonn, the first U.S. ambassador from a democratic South Africa, used anecdotes to characterize Mandela's presidency as exceptionally principled. Toward the end of his talk, he offered a glowing vision of the future under Thabo Mbeki, the country's new president-elect...
...similar fair this year. However, OCS and PBH are working together to develop a Saturday Public Service Career Fair (as distinguished from a job or recruiting fair) early in the spring semester. We hope this first (annual) Public Service Career Fair will become a beacon for students looking toward public service and other careers in the not-for-profit sector, just as the Career Forum has become a beacon for students interested in consulting and investment banking...
Except the prose. "I rode towards Inkerman with my chin buried in my shirt, smelling myself for warmth," Dr. Potter recalls as the novel marches toward its final, appalling snapshot. "Midst the dirt and the staleness I detected the frail scent of cornflowers." Like the unblinking young Myrtle, forced to pose for a picture with a dead man, Bainbridge faces the most shadowy aspects of human nature head on, and demands that her readers do the same...