Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chamberlain Government returned to London from its exile in Ottawa. . . . The old Parliament reassembled for the first time since that day in 1942 when Hitler had sat in the Speaker's chair and Mr. James Maxton [sharp-tongued Labor M.P.] had been shot dead as he rushed forward to brain the Führer with the Mace...
Boasting a roster of ex-college stars, a newly-formed Navy supply Corps basketball team books forward with justifiable optimism to its initial encounter Saturday against Chelsea Naval Hospital. A nine-game schedule has been arranged for the squad, composed entirely of ensigns of Harvard's Midshipmen-Officers Unit...
...United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory...
...Looked forward to toasting the nation in eggnog, and to reading Dickens' Christmas Carol to a family group which would include five grandchildren, Daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, Daughter-in-law Ethel du Pont Roosevelt...
Already the trench-foot rate has been cut 75% simply by making the G.I.s take care of their feet, even in battle. Men are learning to dry their socks on bushes or in their jackets or helmets. In some forward areas, dry socks are issued along with rations. Now improved boots are on the way. They are the Quartermaster Corps' new calf-high shoe-pacs, synthetic rubber up to normal shoe height and leather the rest of the way, designed to be worn with two pairs of heavy socks. Production began in August and a few shoe-pacs have...