Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alexander's Fifth Army commander, Lieut. General Mark Clark: "One of Kesselring's two armies will never fight again." It was about all he had time to say. He was in charge of the pursuit north from Rome. On his right, British General Sir Oliver Leese pressed forward with his polyglot Eighth. He, too, was trying for the great breakthrough, the disorganization that can be brought even to the best of troops...
...Weltwoche said that only a thoughtful minority of German leaders stood between Occupied Europe and the execution of the extremists' plans. This minority argued that Germany's one hope was to make no more enemies, do nothing to increase the huge postwar reparations bill. Germans who put forward this sensible argument must have remembered, with a shiver, Adolf Hitler's words last January: "In the end there will be no victors or losers, but only survivors and annihilated...
...Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin-the news that 63-year-old Dr. Fleming had received not a penny for his momentous achievement. Mr. Cremin decided to do something about it - enclosed with his letter a $1 ,000 check to Dr. Fleming's order-asked TIME to forward it. TIME did-and added our own check for a second...
...newspaper for the Pacific theater was being planned by the U.S. Army last week. Its forward-looking name: Tokyo Express. Thus far U.S. forces in the Pacific have had no service journal comparable to Stars & Stripes. Plans for the new paper include 100,000 copies daily and final editions published in the Japanese capital. The exact date of the first edition depends on anticipated Pacific successes...
...rearward thrust of high-speed gases drives the vehicle forward. This is in accord with Newton's law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction or recoil...