Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give before Europe declared how much she needed. The representative of the world's first planned state came out flatly against any international planning, because it would constitute "interference with other nations' internal affairs." He demanded that each European nation assess its own national needs, and then forward the bill...
...woman (Wellesley's President Mildred McAfee Horton) stepped forward to receive the hoods of their honorary degrees - orange & black, edged with scarlet for Theology & Divinity, golden yellow for Science, purple for Laws, white for Arts & Letters...
...exercises. First he stands at attention and says: 'I am beginning to pray.' Then, putting his hands to his ears, he says: 'Allah is almighty, exalted be Allah.' Standing at attention again, he then recites two suras (chapters) of the Koran. Then, after a forward waist-bend and a deep-knee bend ending with his forehead touching the ground, he repeats: 'God is almighty...
...picture, but what the readers of those maps probably didn't know was that it was a pretty pattern of desperate little confusions." On Iwo, the "desperate little confusions" prodded many a marine into heroism, many more into death. Author Matthews sums up: "It was easier to go forward than to go back...
Abruptly Vag was impelled forward by an energetic whack on the shoulder. He looked around and up at a pleased-looking bronzed lad, yelled, "Sturdy!" and suddenly his freshman year was near and vividly remembered. Sturtevant Pendrake had been the most aggressively self-conscious dilettante and social figure in Vag's prewar circle. Vag had at that time known many ivy-towerish characters, but he still recalled his start of surprise at walking into Sturdy's room and finding ivy growing on the inside walls, deep and luxuriant. Sturdy it was who started the fad of the costs of many...