Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This newest step forward on the road to Tokyo involved revision of the usual Mac-Arthur strategy of hit 'em where they ain't to one of hit 'em where they are-and call a military policeman...
...bazooka was borrowed and Charlie noticed that the sight was broken. A runner started back to battalion headquarters for a new sight, but the attack could not wait. With two scouts on his flanks to protect him, Charlie and his bazooka loader moved forward, the men of A Company trailing cautiously behind...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York's fractious, frabjous little Mayor, looked forward to a monthly radio broadcast over WJZ, and looked over his shoulder at one of his pet projects, the New York City Center of Music and Drama. Admitting that he had never attended a ballet performance there, he explained: "I'm so prejudiced against ballet. I can't be fair about it. It's the male ballet dancers I can't stand...
Prince Carl Johan of Sweden took a firm step forward in the footprints of his cousin, the Duke of Windsor: the 28-year-old Prince was well aware that he could never ascend the Swedish throne if he carried out his vow to wed Kerstin Wijkmark, 35, a once-divorced commoner and editor of The Weekly Review, a publication specializing in cheesecake and syrup...
...drum Washington into agreement, Kaiser rounded up the California Senate and Assembly, got them to forward a joint resolution to President Truman, Federal Loan Administrator John Wesley Snyder and California's Senators and Congressmen-urging continued postwar operation of western war plants by "those who pioneered them...