Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown-suited Harry Truman stood in the cobblestoned court of what had been a German Air Force headquarters, saw the flag break out at the top of the staff, then stepped forward to make an extemporaneous speech. It was over in less than two minutes, but it made the biggest international news of the week. Said plain Harry Truman in plain words...
...almost daily. When she made a triumphal tour of the U.S., millions came to see & hear her. A year ago, ill and exhausted, she retired from public life, 10,000 miles from her homeland. Last week Mme. Chiang Kai-shek was nearing the end of her retirement, and looking forward...
...greater part of the land fighting in the Pacific last week was being done by the Australians. Mostly they inched forward in bitter, forgotten little battles against a scattered but formidable array of Japs (best conservative guesstimate: 136,000-see map) bypassed in the westward sweep of the main battle. But the Aussies were punching ahead on new battlegrounds...
...flames ate into the dry planking, roared toward the bow. Captain Horace Beaton gave orders to cast off. Slowly the burning ship backed out into the stream, slid away from the burning dock, moved forward again and drove sharp against the river bank...
Marlene Dietrich, landing in Manhattan after an eleven-month-long U.S.O. tour of Europe, told reporters that she now looked forward to "a complete overhauling...