Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as Tom Dewey looked forward to his first week's vacation in 17 months and to his campaign for re-election in November, no shrewd political dopester counted him out of the 1948 Presidential race...
Peace was the sickly hatred Churchill described, and peace was other things: the Colonel Blimpish British mine owner who looked forward to the return of unemployment as a cure for the contagion of absenteeism (sometimes 40 percent) which broke out whenever big sports events nearby attracted his work-weary miners; the farmer (of military age) hopefully sowing his field on which a tank rusted, near Saint-Lô, Normandy (see cut); the profound, silent distrust of eleven-year-old Filomena Carciopoli, of Puzzuoli, Italy, who sullenly concealed her starving seven-month-old sister under a bed so they could...
...That afternoon lean President Robert McLean adjourned the A.P. meeting. Colonel McCormick, standing by the microphone with his spectacles dangling from one ear, promptly boomed: "The meeting will come to order!" A.P. members, now sitting in carefully prearranged rump session, winked at each other. The unpurified Colonel then put forward a resolution that the A.P. itself did not want to endorse officially: urging Congress to put press associations beyond the reach of antitrust laws...
...France, some time later, Winston Churchill arrived for a conference at SHAEF Forward Camp, tried to argue Eisenhower into shifting the scheduled amphibious attack against Southern France to the still-occupied ports of Brest, Lorient and Saint-Nazaire. Writes Butcher: "Ike said no, continued saying no all afternoon, and ended saying no in every form of the English language at his command...
...done indirectly by a complicated electronic device which closely resembles a television tube. The infra-red rays from the black-shielded spotlight hit the target and are reflected back (see diagram). Entering the telescope, they are focused by lenses on a special screen at the forward end of the tube. This "image" is not itself visible, but it knocks streams of electrons out of the screen...