Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship was gently pitching when we made the landfall on Japan. We hooked on our flak suits, adjusted our helmets and got into position for the bomb-run. Pilot Root increased the tempo of his gum-chewing. The copilot settled himself solidly in his seat, the engineer edged forward, his eyes glued to the instruments. The navigator, Lieut. James Stanley, checked and rechecked our position...
...Target. Early reports indicated that the fight was going slowly against fanatical resistance. After making the beachhead, U.S. amphibious troops had given some ground before fierce Jap counterattacks, but they hung on. By the third day they were ready to press forward...
...Americans with careless camaraderie. Civil affairs officers have stopped the indiscriminate sale of brandy. So far as I can see, they are neither too officious nor too lax. Soldiers wave at pretty, apple-cheeked girls on the streets and in the country, but they have not been too forward with their attentions. These are businesslike armies and they have plenty of business ahead. If they stick to it the people of Normandy will like them, and a delicate problem of international relations will get off to a good start...
...another black gentleman: His Excellency Mangesha Woube, former Ethiopian Ambassador to Italy. Ever since Italy grabbed Ethiopia in 1935, the Ambassador and his aide had been comfortably interned in a village near Cosenza. Happy and well treated, they did not want to leave, but Lieut. Garcia had orders to forward them to the Middle East...
...nature's cycle has returned to the vegetarian stage once more, and Yard-birds awake at an early hour can glimpse the first tender leaves of lettuce peeking up between Harvard and Hollis. Meat-eaters look forward eagerly to the expected influx of rabbit...