Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enlisted men have had all they want of being treated as "second-class citizens." They have watched officers in forward areas enjoy bigger and cheaper supplies of liquor, better clubs, the best seats at theaters, all the dates with nurses (officers) and Red Cross girls. Soldiers & sailors are returning from World War II, said Stars and Stripes, "hating and detesting military life...
Labor leaders are already looking forward to the next general election five years away (barring disaster). Driven on by Herbert Morrison, Laborite M.P.s and Government officials, trade leaders are launching a great five-year education and membership recruiting program...
R.I.P. In Rockford, Ill., the. tombstone of Criminal Lawyer John Goembel bore the straight-forward inscription: "The Defense Rests...
Saskatchewan's government-owned plants are already set to turn out boots & shoes, bricks, fish fillets, horsehide coats, woolens, boxes, type, lumber and power. The government can also supply fire and general insurance, looks forward to marketing a volcanic-ash kitchen cleaner, running a bus service and perhaps a Moose Jaw radio station. With Cadbury at the helm, this might be only the beginning...
...appeared at my window," says Ryder, who narrates the novel in the first person, "the face I knew to be Sebastian's-but not as I had formerly seen it, alive and alight with gaiety; he looked at me for a moment with unseeing eyes and then, leaning forward well into the room, he was sick. . . . There was ... a kind of insane and endearing orderliness about Sebastian's choice, in his extremity, of an open window." The episode ended in the deathless friendship of Sebastian and Ryder, solemnized at a luncheon of plovers' eggs and lobster Newburg...