Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...COMINCH" corridor, on the second "deck" forward of the Navy Building in Washington, leads to the austere office of the fleet Commander in Chief, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Down this formidable channel, one day recently, steamed Vice-Admiral Aubrey Fitch. He bore with him a topside-shaking plan...
...looking forward to a full program of athletics, as far as manpower permits, including crew, tennis, and baseball. All games, said Getchell, will be scheduled for Wednesdays and Saturdays, as was done this past term, though he may have to limit sports to Saturdays alone, if not enough players are available...
...armies battled grimly forward in eastern China (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Generalissimo Chiang Kai:shek streamlined his Government to keep political pace with them. In order to devote full time to his No. 1 job, strategy and the Army, he resigned his post as China's Premier. To succeed him, he appointed his brother-in-law, hustling, bustling, U.S.-trained Tse-veng Soong, who since last December has been Acting Premier. Simultaneously, another brother-in-law, H. H. Kung, also resigned as Vice President of the Executive Yuan. For some time, Kung has been seriously ill with kidney trouble...
Just as she used to lug in illegitimate children (to the unconcealed horror of conservative NBC), she is now pushing forward such delicate plot material as amputation cases...
...prophetic hero sails northward to buy wooded Manhattan Island from Indian Chieftain Badger (Anthony Quinn), originator of the Badger Game, for the customary price. Then he plunks forward a hundred years or so into the middle of Knickerbocker Holiday minus Peter Stuyvesant, again meets and at last appreciates Miss Leslie. She gets him talking hindside-to Dutch dialect so automatically that, jailed, he sings An Angel If I Had the Wings Of. When at length the genie gets control of his defective time machine, he restores the hero to the present, in the uniform he wanted all along...