Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-quarter position, Jon Pritchard playing his final game at stand-off half. Commander Keith Kear of the New Zealand Royal Navy and the Law School as scrum half, and Bob Kennedy, Al Weisberg, Fred Garfield, Frank Jessop, Don Cummings, Don Hodge, Rog Willson, and Robin Worthington in the forward positions...
...Father Hagen and the others tied white rags on long poles and waved them over their heads, shouting 'Americans, Americans here!' The soldiers kept coming forward as though they hadn't heard...
Father Hagen stood up and walked for ward toward the Americans, toward their guns, shouting. Suddenly, the Americans heard him. They dropped their guns, ran forward and the missionaries and soldiers embraced each other. It was wonderful." Sick, Exhausted, Starving. Sister Antonia was one of 123 U.S., German, Polish, Czech, Australian and Swiss missionaries liberated at Hollandia by surprised U.S. soldiers (TIME, May 22). The missionaries were completely exhausted...
Ausnit, Johnny Loos, Golden, and Holcombe, with Lieutenant-Commander Kear of the R. N. Z. Navy and the Harvard Law School at scrum-half, make up the remainder of the backfield. Among the forwards, the position will be the same as last week, with Kennedy, Garfield, and Gross in the front line, Jessop and Hodge as locks, Weisberg as center, and Wilson and Worthington in the left and-right outside-forward position respectively...
...what Joe Cannon called its "strangling operation." General Cannon had given his airman's word that all heavy communications from the north had been cut days before the battle began, and that they would stay cut. If his judgment was correct, the men on the ground could plow forward with hope at their grim job: making the Germans spend ammunition and men until their supplies ran out, then moving in on them...