Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These answers, according to General Eddy's poll, suit their husbands fine. A modest sampling of some 100 soldier-husbands in Eddy's corps showed that they were looking forward to exactly the same things...
...this week Patton's forward drive had been somewhat slowed, either by increased resistance (Germans were reported streaming westward to meet his thrusts) or by the demands of supplying his tanks. Patton's armor had sunk the deepest wedge into Germany; his spearheads were only 175 miles from the Russians and the Germans were jumpy over any Patton move. One might be the payoff stroke that would cut Germany in two at the waist...
...past when U.S. search planes picked the fleet up southwest of Kyushu and flashed the word to Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58. Task groups under Rear Admirals Frederick C. Sherman, Arthur W. Radford, Joseph James ("Jocko") Clark and Gerald F. Began surged forward, ran for the oncoming Japanese. At noon they launched their planes...
...about a narrow gully in family groups. One blanket covered a father, two small children, a grandfather and grandmother, all strangled by cloth ropes. The mother, a woman of about 35, had tied one end of the rope to a tree, the other end around her neck, leaned forward to die. Reported Corporal Alexander Roberts...
Last week slim, dark-haired George Paxton, 30, joined the glossy fraternity of "name-band" ' leaders. Simultaneously, Paxton's financial backer began to look forward to dividends on a $35,000 investment. All in a breathless few days the young man who was unknown as a bandleader a year ago: 1) got the Glenn Miller trophy for the best new band of the year; 2) signed with Columbia Pictures; 3) added the Los Angeles Palladium Ballroom to bookings at Manhattan's coveted Paramount Theater and Pennsylvania Hotel...