Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes later came back with about 50 members of the Glee Club, who sang some numbers from their regular repertory. Among them was a Bacehauale by Cocehi which they have revived. If I am not mistaken, the song is having some popularity today in Italy with the words, "Forward the Red Brigade...
...oarsman's problem is to move his craft not only with power, but in such a way that all motion other than forward and in a straight line is eliminated. it is this process that takes months of training, as well as natural ability. Any number of things can go wrong during a stroke, because every pull involves the use of the entire body in a precise sequence that must not vary if that all-important smoothness is to be maintained...
Even the recovery is no simple matter. The oars must leave the water together, a snap of the wrists must feather them, and the crewmen must slide their bodies forward and their oars back into position again with a smooth, even motion that does not check the run of the shell. If this much is accomplished successfully the whole cycle begins again, and each man must concentrate on doing exactly the same thing in the same way once more--about 300 time in a mile-and-three-quarters race, or about 700 times in the classic four-mile Yale race...
China needs United States machinery of forward the industrialization critical to its future, Chu declared, but it will not by any means be dependent on U. S. trade. "We can always get machinery from England or Russia," he said...
First Officer Cyril Senior was at the conn, approaching Rio's broad, mountain-ringed harbor at about 15 knots when, without a hint of danger, came the sensation that strikes terror into every sailor's bones: a sharp, grinding noise forward. The 'Magdalena shuddered to a stop, hard aground on a reef so shoal that breakers creamed over...