Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weather and History. Now that the big push is on, Eisenhower will press it forward with full faith in his commanders and his troops, whom he considers the best any commander ever had. With them as his counsel and expert witnesses, he now stands before the bar of history. The progress of the just-begun campaign will decide his case...
...given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history, and in the better days that lie ahead, men will speak with pride of our doings. . . . Let us go forward to victory, and, as we enter the battle, let us recall the words of a soldier spoken many years...
...inch guns, massed thickly on the narrow Karelian corridor into Finland, had opened fire. From the Gulf of Finland came the roar of supporting guns of the Red Baltic Fleet. The Red air force plowed the enemy defenses. At the end of three hours, Soviet infantry and tanks plunged forward into the gaps...
...Premier of Italy, 71-year-old Ivanoe Bonomi, emerged literally out of the underground. In 1912, the Socialist Party expelled the managing editor of its newspaper, Avanti! ("Forward!"), the former school teacher and lawyer Ivanoe Bonomi. His successor : Benito Mussolini. In 1922, mild-mannered, politically independent Bonomi lost the job of Premier which he had held for eight stormy months. His successor: Mussolini. In obscurity during the era of Fascism Triumphant, Avvocato Bonomi eked out a living by ghosting routine briefs for young lawyers whose principal juristic equipment was a Black Shirt. Enter the Northerners. Last week, to the Grand...
...biggest step forward was the development of a method of making penicillin in tanks instead of in flasks. The tank ("submerged") method has saved much labor, cut the minimum cycle of the mold's growth from six to three days, helped cut the price of penicillin nearly 85%. Present average costs of penicillin treatments: $35 for severe septicemia (1,000,000 units), $5 for gonorrhea (150,000 units...