Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tonight at dinner an officer who flew in from an advance base laughed heartily when I (a TIME correspondent) asked permission to read the copy he received yesterday hundreds of miles forward from his base (I had to explain that TIME copies rarely catch up with TIME'S own people out here). Everywhere I go officers of every grade enthusiastically greet the new edition as a great morale sustainer...
Only eleven months earlier, Koga's famed predecessor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ("I am looking forward to dictating peace in the White House . . .") was shot down in his airplane in the South Pacific. The announcement of Koga's death was strangely like that of Yamamoto's: ". . . died at his post in March while directing general operations from an airplane at the front...
Coach Syd Cabot's efforts to coordinate the forward players in the scrummages proved their worth Saturday. Frank Garfield of the V-12 playing in the hook position, flanked by Bob Kennedy and Don Hodge, also of the V-12, was able to heel the ball out to the backs in some of the best scrummaging of the season...
...Forward Murley of the New Zealand team, who last week played with the Australians and made their one scoring, a four-point field goal,-again booted the ball over the Crimson goal posts for two points after Prouse of the New Zealanders had scored a try. At no point, however, were the New Zealand players able to match the Crimson team, which was on the offensive throughout the game, despite the fact that Harvard was playing against its stiffest and most experienced opposition to date...
...annual wage; not compulsory legislation, but approval of the principle. He felt that this would help unions get annual-wage provisions written into contracts, thus provide a safeguard against postwar layoffs. His argument: industry has been guaranteed postwar profits for two years through "carry-back and carry-forward" tax provisions. Farmers have been guaranteed 90% of parity prices on crops. Why should not workers be guaranteed a full year's pay for a full year's work...