Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regaining his composure, Laster found himself looking up at Lloyd A. Wood, instructor in Chemistry and tutor at Lowell House. Laster, whose athletic skill is exceeded only by his sharp wit, informed Wood that he was badly in need of practice in doing forward rolls, cartwheels, and handsprings. Thereupon the enthusiastic Freshman suggested that he should be sentenced to two extra gym periods a week, adding merrily, "Let the punishment fit the crime...
Joseph Stalin's strong and confident armies regathered their strength before striking again. The wonder was not that the Russians' advance had slackened, but that it had not slackened sooner. The Russians needed to build up new forward communication lines, to move up their forward air elements, to sort out masses of men and supplies...
Along the Coast. The Allied team finally got the ball at the end of 1943, on Huon Peninsula-the equivalent of their own 15-yard line. What followed was the military equivalent of a series of seven forward passes, ending on Vogelkop (Bird's Head) Peninsula, 1,200 miles away -the enemy's goal line...
Lieut. General Mark Clark, fighting forward in Italy with his Fifth Army, disclosed his peacetime ambition: to retire to Puget Sound's Camano Island and "fish for the rest of my life...
Farther to the west Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's heavy force of Britons inched forward. Kluge's right began to give at the great hinge below Caen just as his left had been unseated two weeks before by the Americans...