Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basic American. In Johannesburg, South Africa, an old lady, sitting opposite a gum-chewing U.S. soldier in a suburban train, smiled amiably, finally leaned forward and said apologetically: "It's very kind of you to talk to me, sir, but I am stone-deaf...
Suddenly a 31-year-old lieutenant colonel, veteran of 80 missions and ranking officer at the base, walked forward, lifted his heavy pistol and fired two shots. The screaming stopped...
...guns thundered out along the Oder. The Marshal's tested team of Army commanders-Colonel Generals Katukov and Bogdanov of the tanks; Belov, the cavalry leader; Chuikov. who led the 62nd Russian Army at Stalingrad; Popov, Kolpakchi, Tsvetayev-moved their men forward...
...Earl of Halifax, who once said that he would rather be Master of Fox Hounds than Prime Minister, prepared to set out on a tour of the U.S. Southwest, looked forward to a ride to hounds in the best Oklahoma tradition-a wolf hunt...
...rank was below that of the Army Chief of Chaplains, Major General William R. Arnold, and his office was just an appendage of the Naval Bureau of Personnel. Last week, after a unanimous Senate vote, Chaplain Workman could not only sport the stripes of a rear admiral, but looked forward to coming home from a 25,000-mile Pacific tour to a brand-new office of the Chief of Naval Chaplains...