Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator two years ago, he made a, successful fight against some of the more rigorous measures which Taft had tried to write into the Taft-Hartley Act.† Said Ives: "Rightly or wrongly, the consensus of opinion of many Republicans is that the party under Bob is not going forward. We are in a state of suspended animation...
...smaller satellites. They would have to be shot downward to increase their falling rate and allow them to catch up with the curving surface of the earth. Shooting them backward would have a similar effect. If they were shot backward at a speed equal to the satellite's forward speed on its orbit, they would stand still in space for an instant. Then they would fall vertically toward the earth. The whole satellite could be brought down on a target in either of these ways by giving it a powerful push from its nuclear rocket motor. But unless...
...quite simply, it was the different attitude to the Bible, from which we each take our start . . . I was struck by finding in our Anglo-Saxon friends a remarkable [tendency] . . . to theologise on their own account, that is to say, without asking on what biblical grounds one put forward this or that professedly 'Christian' view. They would quote the Bible according to choice . . . according as it appeared to them to strengthen their own view, and without feeling any need to ask whether the words quoted really have in their context the meaning attributed to them...
Track coach Jaakko Mikkola reports that his team is out of shape now as a result of the Christmas layoff, and he is looking forward to tomorrow's informal meet as an indicator of what may be expected of the Crimson later...
...skiing enthusiasts in the Eastern states have something to look forward to. The New York City weather man retired as of January 1 and both the new man and the Farmer's Almanac predict snow before the end of the month...