Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shigemitsu, doffing his silk hat and peeling a yellow glove from his right hand, limped forward to sign the document and was assisted to a chair. With a blank, expressionless face he composed himself and signed. Umezu followed. He slowly drew off his white gloves and, without sitting, bent his stocky body forward and affixed the authority of the Japanese Army to the acknowledgment of total defeat...
Almost no qualifications were submitted by regular members of the staff, who considered the committeee's action unjustified and unlawful. But other students complied with the committee's request, with the result that Stanley Smith, V-12, a star football tackle of Coach Lou Little's forward wall, was named editor-in-chief. Smith had no status or experience on the staff; he had never been a candidate for the paper...
...relaxation and pride are not rewards of victory that we seek. Peace . . . will confront us with stupendous and difficult tasks . . . more trying even than those we met during the war. . . . We must march forward on the great road of democracy and unity. . . ." Chungking had jubilantly welcomed the Japanese surrender offer (TIME...
Outside the tangled wreckage, a sailor from a forward car held his baby in his arms, clawed wildly at acetylene-torch crews cutting into the mangled steel. Just before the crash, his wife had entered the observation...
...world ready for the new step forward? It was never ready. It was, in fact, still fumbling for the answers to the age of steam and electricity. The kindly physicists handed plain people (like Harry Truman and Clement Attlee) the fissioned atom,.and said: You have to decide who owns it; who can kill whom with it, and under what circumstances. How fast is it to be developed? Certainly, it will change the world. You have to make laws...