Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tiny Squeak." Senator La Follette's chief complaint against U.S. foreign policy: "Our failure to step forward with an American democratic alternative" to British imperialism and Russian power politics. Said he: "The people wonder if they are to be committed now to enforce a peace settlement which violates American principles of freedom and democracy." And what, the Senator asked, is to be done about the chaos in Italy, the policy toward Franco, the fate of the Poles? "The American people wonder about our policy in the Far East. Do we favor a strong China or do we side with...
...first German tanks overran U.S. forward positions. Then a thunderous cannonade from more than 100 big guns massed in the assault area broke the attack, forced the German armor to back...
...Cautious Way. The First put in five days & nights of steady hammering before it got its first break. It took bitter punishment - the enemy was also good at infighting, and Courtney Hodges had to be cautious. But Hodges' men delivered hard, damaging blows, inching forward, never easing the pressure, always looking for an opening to hit where it would hurt most...
...comforting side, 34-year-old Coach McKeever knows that he has a wicked weapon in his forward passing offense. Quarterbacks Joe Gasparella and Frank Dancewicz are equally deadly with their pitching arms up to 30 yards, already have completed 20 passes for 421 yards. Effective on the receiving end, besides fast-breaking Bob Kelly, are Halfback Achille ("Chick") Maggioli and two 6-ft.-4 freshmen ends, Bill O'Connor and Tom Guthrie...
...also those numerous urbanites who wonder wistfully how they might make out on five acres and a prayer. General answer: there is a chance for small farmers, through rural electrification and cooperatives, but not too gay or sure a one. Few or none of the returning soldiers who look forward to farming can be absorbed on the land; and the small farmer at best is threatened by the expanding immensity of 20th-century big-business farming. Most impressive-and to many, most depressing-shots in the film show the implacable march of incredibly proficient machines across vast acreages of California...