Word: fores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Climbing into the silo, Partridge built a small ramp from the floor to the feed-door, and milked the cow "to make things easier for her." Then Partridge greased cow and ramp, and hitched on ropes fore and aft. The vet gave Grady a sedative. While Partridge pushed Grady from the rear, Mach and some neighbors pulled. Out slid Grady with nary a scratch...
Whenever the project of a War Memorial comes to the fore, there are two schools of thought as to what basic idea should guide the design of it. There is the so-called practical idea; that the memorial should be "useful", that it should not be just a pile of masonry and bronze and as such, be just a waste of money. Then there is the sentimental idea; that the memorial should seek to radiate the thought of heroic sacrifice, something that should instantly arrest the attention of every beholder as something worthy of personal thought, followed by personal patriotic...
...party leadership, new faces were slowly coming to the fore. Chief among these was Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, who is chairman of the party's committee on policy. In figure and pipe-smoking placidity, he recalls Stanley Baldwin; there might come a time when the exhausted British electorate would like just such...
...might be possible to enable the present human brain to be supported, in spite of excessive gravitation, by throwing man into the quadruped position, greatly strengthening the four legs, and at the same time pushing the head far backwards so as to distribute its weight evenly between the fore and hind legs. But what of the problem of providing hands? . . . My only suggestion is that the nose might be greatly elongated into a trunk equipped with delicate grasping instruments like fingers. It would probably be desirable to have two trunks, if not three. The eyes . . . would have to be projected...
Thus, Ana, reliable and ruthless, has come to the fore; there is a new cutting edge on the old party battle-ax. She is quoted much more often and more reverently in the satellite press than other non-Russian Communists. At the Danube conference, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky made a point of turning to her for advice while ignoring the other Red delegates. He takes pains to give her pointers on conference technique. Obviously she is being groomed for a bigger international role...