Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head across the Moselle River. Here the Nazis launched their heaviest counter attack, for they were being backed up into the old Maginot Line, two miles from the German border. They threw the Yanks back nearly two miles before their strength was spent. Then Patton's attack rolled forward again...
Limited as it was, the surge forward marked the arrival of the new Eighth Army commander, severe, demanding Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery, by reputation a more daring operator than his predecessor. Lieut. General Sir Oliver W. H. Leese. McCreery, a good friend of the Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark (they even sign their official correspondence "Dick" and "Mark"), will probably enforce closer cooperation with the Fifth...
...hospitable Muscovites could also look forward to other prospective callers. From London came a report that the U.S., Britain and Russia had opened conversations with Turkey about the Dardanelles. The Turks would probably have to make one of two concessions: 1) demilitarization of the straits to give Russia unchallenged outlet from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean; 2) the creation of a small Dardanelles-Bosporus state to be administered by an international body...
Trailing 2 to 0 at half-time, the Crimson fought back and with some skillful passing plays, soon evened the score. Then, with five minutes to go and Brown leading 3 to 2, Paul Pearson, star Crimson forward who had been detained for most of the afternoon by important naval obligations, rushed into the game and proceeded to spur the Crimson to their third straight win this term. His vital goal came only two minutes after Day had tied the score on a cleverly-placed penalty shot...
Susie exploded from the starting gate with her wobbly ears cocked forward, her long stride eating up the ground. After just 50 yds., Devil Diver was three lengths back; at the wire, it was six. Megogo was never in the race. Without a single token tap of the whip, Susie had traveled the route in 1:56 3/5 - the identical time set by Seabiscuit in humbling War Admiral in the same race six years...