Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early this year Nurse St. Croix gave birth to a baby girl. Private Whitehouse had no hesitation about stepping forward and admitting his responsibility. He talked the matter over calmly with the baby's mother and reported: "She didn't want the baby and she didn't want me." He wrote to Rose, telling her the whole story. Rose did not reply. It took several months in a Newfoundland court, but Nurse St. Croix gladly signed the papers which made Arthur the baby's sole legal guardian. The preoccupied U.S. Army gave Private Whitehouse...
...creek in summer, the Roer was now swollen by rain. The Germans increased the flood by blowing dams and opening sluice gates, until the shallow brown water in one place spread almost a mile across the plain. Lieut. General William ("Texas Bill") Simpson's Ninth Army inched painfully forward until it held a 20-mile stretch on the west bank. On his right, Courtney Hodges' First Army had to cross a smaller stream, the Inde, before it could come up to the Roer. The Germans fought like wild men for the Inde also. Driven out of the town...
Conscription was now a fact. But French Canadians, implacably opposed to it, looked forward to the coming election, and recalled Quebec's motto: "Je me souviens" (I shall remember...
...could the tide be rolled back in time to save Kweiyang, now the last forward U.S. air base? By this week the Japs had snaked in past Pachai, only 65 miles east of Kweiyang, apparently had bypassed the Chinese units set out for distant defense of the city's rail and road approaches. Another strong enemy column had speared beyond Hochih, stood astride the railroad only 75 miles southeast of Kweiyang...
Starting lineup as announced today by Coach Stahl will have Jack Clark and Bob Chapple at the forward positions, with either Chet Pierce or Dave Mackintosh acting as the pivot man. Mike Keene will start at left guard, teaming with Bill Burk or Purvis Colins...