Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucky Forward is peppered with similar charges, none of them convincingly sustained. Says Allen: "Patton was the sparkplug and dynamo of the war in the ETO. The full record of his genius and far-flung impact on operations still is entombed behind an official wall of jealous silence and so-called 'classified documents...
...Lucky Forward is likely to please only those who want to make a legend of Patton. Essentially it is a rewrite of Headquarters section reports into a kind of headline-writer's jab-&-smash jargon. It is jerky, often ungrammatical, unblushingly awkward: "The enemy's vitals had been pierced. An Armored poniard was stabbed squarely in the middle of his rear and athwart his main line of communications. . . . The enemy was beset from every quarter in a welter of triphammer blows, chaos, death, and destruction. On the ground and in the air he was mauled and ravaged from...
...against the Third Army in the distribution of supplies, especially gasoline, and knew that the Third could have kept advancing at times when it was halted by higher headquarters. What the reasons were was not always clear and is not entirely clear yet, and Allen does nothing in Lucky Forward to clarify matters. Even rabid Third Army veterans will probably not be satisfied with Colonel Allen's charge of simple jealousy in higher places. The Patton legend does not need to be increased by decreasing the services, the skills and the patriotism of men who worked beside or above...
...ultimate agreement--reached in a plenary session tense with the crossfire of eloquent oratory called for a Constitutional clause affirming every man's right to equal educational opportunity, and a section of the by-laws looking forward to "the eventual elimination of segregated educational systems anywhere in the United States" with due regard for "the legal limitations involved." The crucial provision was complete regional autonomy. Despite this, conservative Southern leader Lloyd Teakle of Louisiana State University could privately remark: "I guess we can get this thing through back home. I'll just show them the Constitution and hope...
...Communist-Party-led delegates (from duly-invited front organizations and campuses where those influence elections), representing perhaps 9 percent of the votes. In between stood a centrist liberal 17 percent organized by Don S. Willner '47--national chairman of Students for Democratic Action--to check the aggressive forward positions taken by both extremes. Forty percent of the Convention's strength did not engage in concerted activity. Nevertheless when the chips were down the slate of officers advanced by the SDA group won a near clean sweep...