Word: forepart
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...path, also noticed the baby's escape. She turned to head it off from the gravel. "Dirty! dirty!" She reached it first, caught it and tried to lift it bodily into the air. She was a strong child and by a great effort she succeeded in raising its forepart from the ground so that it hung suspended. Its face, in this position, was still perfectly calm. "Dirty, dirty," the dark little girl scolded...
...formation of combat-bound Flying Fortresses, over northwest Europe at 13,500 feet, there was only a moment of confusion. But it was enough. There was a collision, and one of the B-17s, with its tail cut off, spilled crazily forward. The heavy forepart plunged with its pilots, gunners and navigator. Only one bailed out. As the formation bored on, its air crews saw the tail of the mangled ship sailing erratically, like a piece of paper dropped from a skyscraper window...
...Hitler needed to do was to let his whiskers sprout and sit on a nest of thunderbolts and naked swords, thinking of plague and pestilence and rapine and slaughter and slavery for the vanquished, to be a fit understudy for the vengeful, murderous Jehovah of the forepart of the Old Testament...
...torpedo ripped through the port side, under the bridge. It knocked out the ship's radio and power plant. In pre-dawn darkness the crew struggled with the lifeboats as the submarine opened up with its deck gun, scoring only one hit (in the Montebello's forepart) out of "eight or ten" shots. Despite strafing machine-gun fire, the 36 officers and crew pulled to safety, cursing the attackers. Said Captain Eckstrom...
...transferred until it rests over the forward foot, is called the suction step. This suction step, which starts from the same straight foot-forward position, is not the work of the backward leg, but makes the transference of the weight the task of the front leg. The forepart or ball, of the forward foot (heel raised) must be implanted upon the floor, and must 'grip' the floor so firmly that the forward leg is able, by means of this firm 'grip,' to draw the trunk forward by gradual pulls exerted successively by the muscles...