Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb bay was closed. In the purpling east, cumulus clouds bumped heads in a huddle. As Major Woodrow P. Swancutt pushed the throttles all the way forward, a rainbow shone overhead. Dave's Dream gathered speed, then rose slowly into the easterly wind...
...government that did not represent India's major political groups. The day the mission left, Viceroy Lord Wavell appointed a temporary "caretaker" government of eight officials of the Raj (seven had been knighted in His Majesty's service, only two were Indians). The biggest step forward had been agreement by both the Congress Party and Moslem League to accept Britain's long-term plan for an Indian constitution providing a central federal government (to please the Congress Party) with strong local autonomy (to please the Moslem League). Election of delegates to frame a constitution was already starting...
...cartwheel hat, a slinky black dress and an egg-sized, green-stoned ring. Her topic: "Politics and the Sleeping Beauty." Women, said she, "regulate their lives according to the male's ideas of the ideal of women's status ... according to a clock which does not move forward but eternally marks the hour-sex o'clock. . . ." She advised them to "gain dignity" by taking part in politics, running for Congress...
...walks slowly with the slightly bent posture of an old lady (she is 79), and yet she seems to be as sound as a rock and full of quiet dignity. Like any charming oldster, Queen Mary has developed some pleasing eccentricities. For instance, she always rides in the forward jump-seat of her Daimler, coupling an old-fashioned inclination to see where she is going with an equally old-fashioned desire to sit up straight. And her unswerving devotion to prewar (World War I, of course) conventions leads her to cling rather impishly to her hat styles and to carry...
...Mussolini as a menace to world peace. But Sylvia can see the big issues as quick as a flash. In fact, she is so shocked by Robert's hazy ideological thinking that she sorrowfully washes her hands of him. On the rebound, he marries Ann. From that day forward, the U.S. State Department is running with the Wrong Crowd straight toward World...