Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wearing a worn work shirt, buttoned at the throat, a pair of dingy pants. There was an outrageous twisted rope of cigar between his teeth and a faded ten-gallon hat pushed back on his white hair. His old friend from the U.S. Senate stepped down, rushed forward, hand outstretched. Old Jack Garner clapped him on the back, beaming: "I'm glad to see you, Harry, bless your old soul...
Garner's hands were stained black. He leaned forward slightly, favoring his left ear, talking fast. "Got my hands like this hulling pecans yesterday. Today I've been in the cornfield since early morning-I took the 'down row'-had to bend down, following the wagon. I wish we had time to strike a blow for Liberty, Harry...
...have been a council of workmen and soldiers. ... It has been a pleasure to me and an honor to have so many long and intimate talks with my friend and war comrade Marshal Stalin, and to deal with him on the many difficult questions inseparable from the united, forward march of the great nations. ... I hope most earnestly and I believe with great conviction that the warrior statesman at the head of Russia will lead the Russian people-all the peoples of Russia*-through the years of storm and tempest into the sunlight of a broader and happier...
...trees around farm buildings, was raked by fire from end to end. Shattered trees, shattered buildings and the shattered corpses of Germans lay before the Canadians. At one time, part of the bridgehead across the 100-foot canal was only ten yards deep. Gradually, units from western Canada pushed forward, wet and bedraggled, until they had carved out an area more than five miles by three...
...combustion chamber. At the takeoff, the gas is ignited. When the bomb is in motion, air rushing into the jets opens them, passes into the combustion chamber, sets off an explosion which closes the jets and expels the expanding vapors from the rear end, giving the bomb a forward push. As the vapor escapes, air opens the jets again and the process is repeated, 45 times a second, to give the machine an almost continuous thrust...