Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wildly crackling antiaircraft fire. Four of them smashed into her. The fifth plane, knocked into the sea, freakishly bounced into her side and exploded, rupturing her skin near the waterline. Flaming gasoline spewed across her hangar deck. One bomb penetrated four decks, wiping out living quarters. Fire swept the forward part of the flight deck...
...whipped soldiers of the Wehrmacht in their grey-green uniforms were straggling back through the shattered cities. were all of a pattern. They walked fast and flatfootedly, their heads with their peaked caps thrust forward, balancing the packs on their backs. Seldom did they raise their eyes from the ground to see what guns and bombers had done. Some of the soldiers were hailed with cheers, flowers, kisses. Many a British U.S. soldier, dourly viewing these welcomes, felt that the German people were a little mixed up about...
Toward Dominion Status. The British Government considered its new plan only a "step forward during the interim period [before the granting of Dominion status...
Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, the small boy in Cheyenne, Wyo. who got a month-early Christmas party last year when everyone thought he was dying, looked forward to his fourth birthday July ii. Now fit, chipper and feeling like a new boy, six months after a life-saving operation, he pedalled around for news photographers on his velocipede (see cut), one of his houseful of Christmas presents from sympathetic newspaper readers...
...skirt and stood revealed in her rehearsal costume. . . . She did a short tribal war dance. 'I want to go where they dance like that. I want to find out why, how it started, and what influence it had on the people.' Obviously impressed, the chairman . . . leaned forward, and, without taking a vote, asked, 'How about the West Indies...