Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departed leader never looked backward. He looked forward and moved forward. That is what he would want...
...going to a barbecue. He had told his friend Jess Long, Georgia peach grower, to "make some of that good Brunswick stew of yours." In the evening, the polio patients at his beloved Warm Springs Foundation were going to give a minstrel show for him. He was looking forward to both affairs...
...name in the register of bereavement at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Pope Pius XII felt it. He was at his desk in the Vatican when word came. Britain's King George felt it. He and Queen Elizabeth, remembering a past picnic at Hyde Park, had been looking forward to a visit soon from Franklin Roosevelt and to putting him up at Buckingham Palace. Now their Court Circular, for the first time in history, recorded the death of a foreign chief of state...
...units had surged forward from their beachheads against a scattered, disorganized resistance, swiftly capturing more than a fourth of the 60-mile-long island. Under Major General Roy S. Geiger, the leathernecks of the III Marine Amphibious Corps had pressed north, reached through the Ishikawa Isthmus to the neighborhood of Kin. Under Major General John R. Hodge, the doughboys of the XXIV Army Corps had moved south toward Naha, the island's capital...
...worm-turned-dragon finally went too far: he set the train on fire. As the flames crept forward, the driver unhitched the engine, sped up the line for police...