Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo bureau, one member has planned an expedition up the Nile in his 15-ft. sloop, another is looking forward to a honeymoon in the Lebanese mountains. Gamal Kodsi has postponed his vacation until winter in the hope of accompanying Egypt's Olympic team to the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Researcher Violet Price, who has scheduled a cruise among the Balearic Islands in a 55-ton ketch, adds this idyllic note: "If times were right and we could choose the ideal vacation for this part of the world, the vote would go for a lazy cruise through...
...release, he was forcibly inducted into the Army, forcibly dressed in uniform; a tall Welsh Guardsman, who was to escort him back to Wales, ordered him to shoulder his pack. Homer refused. The deadlock continued till a crowd gathered. Finally a grey-haired little man stepped forward, quietly picked up the pack and murmured: "Come along, Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under...
...were happening to him. After a flurry of Zale punches had sent him down for no count, his right eye was closed to a slit, his left blinded by blood. Rocky-who well remembered that after last year's fight some sportswriters had called him yellow-kept groping forward, swinging wild punches and dripping blood on Zale. Between rounds, the Illinois Athletic Commission's doctor looked at Rocky Graziano's eyes, decided to let him continue...
...bumped into an Italian woman who had rushed forward to ask that her son be allowed to go to Argentina. Eva got out to help, promised that the woman's petition would be granted. Next day, as she had done in Spain, she visited public nurseries, stuck lire into grimy, outstretched hands, talked steadily about her love for children and the poor...
From that point, U.N. had moved neither forward nor back...