Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without communications, China cannot survive, and today the plain fact is that until one side or the other clears those railroads, there can be no effective communications. . . . With Nationalist forces in control of the main lines below the Great Wall, with cities free, some measures of recovery can go forward. Continued Communist guerrilla warfare will not permit the Government to relieve a long-suffering people of an overheavy military burden, but it will at the least mean unity...
...Varsity-Freshman scrimmage on Monday, Freshman mentor "Poley" Guyda suffered a severely strained ankle when he collided with a Varsity defenseman. At that time he was playing as a forward for the Freshman squad in an effort to coordinate their attack. A former professional booter, Guyda will continue to handle the Yardlings from the sidelines as soon as the ankle heals sufficiently for him to got off crutches...
...practice this week Mac has been stressing the full use of the outside men in the forward line and trying to get the team to stop trying to score on dashes through the center of the opponent's defense, a practice which he feels has cost the Crimson several goals so far thin season...
...yesterday came flooding back with a force equalling even the fondest dreams of B. Carroll Reece, the G.O.P. national chairman. With control of the House of Representatives assured and a majority in the Senate indicated by the latest returns, the Republicans can read the lessons of history and look forward to 1948 with confidence. For without exception, the capturing of a Congressional majority by the party out of power in an off-year election has presaged a Presidential victory by that party two years later...
Hard-running by the Lowell backs and hard-charging by the Lowell line spelled defeat for the Puritans, who were unable to halt the co-ordinate Bellboy attack, which operated almost exclusively on the ground. On the defense, the black-shirted Lowell forward wall constantly thwarted the Winthrop T formation plays, so that the Puritans were forced to take to the air for their first two downs. Only once during the game was Winthrop in Lowell territory, that coming as the result of a recovered Bellboy fumble...