Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solicitous election official hastened forward with advice. The lever clanked again, caught correctly this time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 62, self-styled tree grower of New York State, voter No. 251 of Hyde Park village, had exercised his right as a U.S. citizen...
...road to Japan had been widened, the portion which U.S. supplies must travel had been lengthened, as hardheaded Admiral Mitscher was quick to point out. The Pacific war, said he, must slow down now, not because of defeats, but because of victories which have moved U.S. bases forward by thousands of miles. In his best professorial manner Mitscher soundly lectured: Americans have no idea of the effort consumed in getting food, ammunition and other supplies to the islands of the Pacific-it means a lot more shipping than is available now. "We'll just have to cut a couple...
While the A.I.F. is resting it can look forward to "hard and bitter fighting" to root an estimated 90,000 Japs out of the jungles, said the Australian Army commander, General Sir Thomas Blamey, last week. Army Minister Francis Forde announced Australia's casualties since 1939: 83,976* including 16,639 killed, 5,976 missing. When the time comes to root Japs out of other bypassed areas, such as Java and Malaya, observers do not doubt that the Diggers will be doing that rooting, too. The Diggers' rear-area assignment would not be the hardest life they...
...Philadelphia, a crowd of 48,000 watched once-beaten Michigan put Pennsylvania over a barrel, 41-to-19, with reverses, spinners and lateral forward passes -spun from both T and single-wing formations...
Conspicuous for his absence during practice sessions last week was Roy Heisler, speedy forward, who had been the spear-head of the Crimson, attack before leaving for the Army at the close of last term. Coach McDonald thinks, though, that Bill Butcher, a newcomer, will be able to take Heisler's place and supply a much-needed offensive punch. Butcher, a medically discharged veteran of the second World War, was an outstanding halfback for Harvard before joining the army...