Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georgian Terrace Hotel, Courtney Hodges and his bemedaled and beribboned entourage got out of their cars. A tall, grey-haired woman wearing a bright red hat and a corsage of orchids leaned forward as they passed. She called to the General: "Remember me?" The General's sunburnt face lit up. He stopped to give his wife a kiss-the first time he had seen her in 15 months. Then he climbed the platform to make the first of many speeches...
Political Implications. To her allies (the U.S. and Britain), the Chinese successes meant that the advance units of China's potential military might were slowly, doggedly beginning to move forward along the long road to Tokyo. Politically, the Chinese successes foreshadowed the emergence of China as a Far Eastern power whose political destiny might well prove to be the political destiny of democracy in Asia and in the world...
...husband and I both look forward to it tremendously. He reads it to me while I mend; I read it to him if we ever drive anywhere, and we keep the current copy in the bathroom...
...Holocaust. Commander Robert Downes, damage control officer, had just left his cabin. Concussion hurled him back through the closed door and up against the outer bulkhead. The forward elevator, weighing 32 tons, popped up from the flight deck, its plungers blown from their sockets. In a control room in the towering island structure Lieut. William Simon was flung against the overhead. He came to and managed to crawl through a door. Simon was one of three men to escape; 30 died inside. On the gallery deck men were trapped inside jammed doors and baked to death by the breath...
...this rate-raising is that the railroads of the South and West, having much less traffic, presumably could not bear equalization if it were achieved entirely by cutting their rates. Thus equal economic opportunity for the South and West is to be secured, not by their taking two steps forward, but by their taking one step forward and the East taking one step back...