Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cycle had made a full turn, and a million U.S. duck shooters looked forward to the best season in years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with an eye toward crop damage from the excess stock, added ten days to the season (which opens next week in the Northern Zone). In addition, the WPB relaxed shotgun ammunition restrictions, allowing each hunter four boxes (100 shells) instead of the one box allowed last year. The hunter's problem was to get his four boxes; most dealers still had scant supplies, were doling out one box per person. It might...
...first time in this war we are fighting to free our homes, our wives and our children from German attacks. Every yard we advance reduces the area from which he can launch his secret weapons. . . . Let us drive forward ruthlessly and relentlessly, taking as our motto, 'One more kilometer and one less bomb...
...Business should be allowed to carry forward losses from operations to apply against earnings for a six-year period...
Outweighing and outperforming the backs, the Crimson linemen have thus far shown themselves to be the strong spot in Lamar's armor. Boasting five members of last year's squad, one veteran college gridman, and one promising civilian Freshman, the forward wall is powerful on both offense and defense...
They were bow-heavy; in even moderate seas they corkscrewed like cooch dancers ; they sprang leaks along welds; pumps and auxiliaries broke down; hot water heater tubes burned out; stanchions and hooks cracked off; flight decks extended so far forward that heavy seas rolled up under them and in the case of at least one ship carried the forward end of the flight deck away. The Casablancas were an uncertain haven to returning planes, especially if the air was light and the ship was wallowing in a ground swell. Men nicknamed the carriers "Kaiser's Coffins...