Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flowed back over the wing like blood in the moonlight. The plane began to shudder; the far starboard engine died. Its feathered prop stood stark and motionless. The plane rumbled on uneasily, unevenly. The other starboard engine sputtered and died, and the craft began to lose altitude. Up forward, the radio operator methodically clicked out an SOS, giving his position. The white-faced passengers cinched themselves into life jackets, tightened their-safety belts, and waited...
Berlin was not intimidated. As if carried forward by the momentum of resistance, power plant workers staged the first labor revolt against the Russians in Berlin since the occupation began. Trouble had started, before the elections, in the main administration offices of huge Bewag (Berliner Elektrizitätswerke A.G.). The Russians and their stooges, trying to destroy Bewag's predominantly non-Communist works council, had arrested six men and stationed police and plainclothesmen in the building. At a noisy, protest meeting, 3,000 Germans decided on a walkout unless their men were freed and the cops removed. Jumping...
...Tsaolaochi, a grey brick station-house with a mud-walled village behind it, Nationalist forces had just set up a forward headquarters. Under General Li Yen-nien, commander of the Sixth Army Group, two field armies, the 99th. and the 54th, about 50,000 strong, were pressing northwestward in an attempt to join hands with the Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 25 miles away. In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them...
...late afternoon, our ten-wheeler pulled into the large village of Chiang-chiahu, forward headquarters of General Hu Chang-ching's 99th Army. "We are fighting from village to village," said affable, silver-toothed Hu, pointing to some pillars of smoke a couple of miles ahead. "Chen Yi's sixth column and some of Liu Po-cheng's troops are. throwing up defense lines between here and Huang Wei's Twelfth Army Group." There were 20 or more tough miles still to go for a junction with the encircled Huang...
...terrible wrench to leave his closest colleagues in the British Civil Service [since 1939, he has been Secretary of Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]. If he's climbed to any eminence at all, it's been on their shoulders. Although he looks forward to resuming academic life, he's found his ten years in civil service a great adventure, which he wouldn't have missed for anything! Always takes life at great pace and with gusto...