Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, seated on the forward gun deck of his ship, received the royal visitors as the crew manned the rails, bugle calls sounded and the shrill notes of the boatswain's pipe kept all hands standing rigidly at attention...
...Having taken one step forward by its admirable example, the Georgia Legislature now took two steps back. Up rose grey-haired Senator Roy McGinty to propose that Negroes be permitted to vote in Democratic primaries. The Senate listened politely. When the vote came, down went McGinty in a solid chorus...
...Could Give It. From the heights of Suribachi in the southwest, and a series of hills in the northeast, the Japanese poured enfilading fire into the attackers. Forward observers with the marines radioed back to the ships for fire support. Turner conceded that the preliminary bombardment had cleaned out "by no means all" of the Jap artillery positions. Said Howlin' Mad Smith: Our men are spread all over hell's acre out there, and they're going after those hidden Jap guns, which are mighty hard to locate. Most of those guns are in caves. They come...
With horror gourmets looked forward to the day when, rolling their tongues over unfermented grape juice, they would find themselves saying: "Ah! vintage of '46! Quel bouquet...
...Mezzie") Barber and Army Lieut. Arthur Devlin proved themselves head & shoulders above the field-five fellow Americans, ten Canadians-in the annual invitation ski jump from Lake Placid's 70-meter Olympic Hill. Off the takeoff, 145-lb. Mezzie Barber, reached for altitude with revolving arms, then leaned forward from the ankles in wind-cutting power dives that carried him 218 and 223 feet. Artie Devlin, leaning more from his hips than ankles, jumped 220 feet on his first ride; but he let the wind get on top of his borrowed skis, made only 197 feet on the second...