Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exact information, enlightenment and joy we derive from reading your excellent magazine make us look forward to each new issue of TIME with eagerness and expectancy. Your articles on war and world politics are of utmost value to us in giving the readers of the Norwegian underground press a wider picture of the world as it is today and will be tomorrow. Many of your articles are wholly or partly translated and printed by our underground papers, and as an example of this we send you enclosed a late edition of our weekly Kronikken...
...glasses, getting plenty of mud on the paratroop boots into which he tucks his G.I. pants. He knew what the cold, dirty, wet and often hungry doughboys were going through. He wanted to get them out of there, and out of the war, as soon as possible. He looked forward to fishing, back in the U.S. "I know," he said recently, "a lot of nice river banks...
...while the training went on, China was still in evil days; the Japanese pressed closer to China's inner fortress. The enemy had moved to within 120 miles of Kweiyang, an air base city near the eastern end of the Burma Road. Nanning, last forward American air base in China, was captured. Heading the advance was wily, bespectacled General Yasuji Okamura (whom Wedemeyer called a "wise and adept mountain fighter...
...heritage. His editorials, ground out with painful slowness, are almost pedantically preoccupied with both sides of the question. They are invariably prosaic and humorless. His advocacy last year of the abolition of Jim Crow busses and streetcars in Virginia, which set the whole South on its ear, was put forward in a quiet editorial entitled "The Conservative Course in Race Relations." Excerpt: "Many Virginians probably do not know it, but we have now arrived at the point where radicals from the North will find it easy to secure a large following . . . unless reasonable and proper concessions to the colored people...
...24th hung on, moved slowly forward, watching for the Jap counterblow. Presumably MacArthur's reserves were ready when it should fall. It was a lot different from the way hopeful U.S. soldiers had imagined it after the U.S. steam roller successes in the first week of the invasion. The enemy intended to dispute possession of Leyte; hard fighting was ahead...