Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific, Americans nevertheless could not help feeling that Russia was carrying most of the land-fighting load in Europe. Last week they learned how much the U.S. production machine had contributed to the Eastern Front. On some fronts more than half of the Russian Army's supplies move forward in U.S. trucks. From October 1941 to December 1944 the U.S. had shipped to Russia, via Lend-Lease...
High scorer for the evening and spark-plug of the Crimson attack was Jack Clark. The lanky forward's tricky dripbling and deceptive pivots netted him 16 points. Jack Noble, who came in at center for the ailing Captain Mike Keene and was Stahl's sole substitution, shared the losers' runner-up honors with Jack Wallace, each tallying six points...
...sober. Over the years it had slowly changed. In Stalin's youth his face had been delicately handsome, but revolution, war, power and, above all, will had abraded it into somber strength. The hair, which had been purplish black like most Georgians', and grew far forward on the low forehead, had turned grey. The eyes, which had once peered out from velvety depths of unfathomable distrust ("Lenin trusts Stalin," old Bolsheviks used to say, "and Stalin trusts nobody"), had acquired an expression almost of authoritative benevolence...
...Ritz in his kitchen. Dinner engagements are booked weeks in advance. Bob Simpson is selling his single seat at the symphony now that he has met a very attractive someone, frequently a Cowie guest. Arab Kingsley has been humming concertos and tearing telephone books in half looking forward to his violin sessions interrupted momentarily by disbursing afloat...
Hidden Actors. Chinese and American officers peer through their glasses and telescopes at the forward slopes. They can see nothing. The infantry is deep in the underbrush, bellying its way up over the rocks and ledges. The American officers prod the Chinese general. He assures them that his regiments are moving...