Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the tumult and the shouting, observers felt the confident, mighty ground swell of a party moving forward-a party that, after long exile, knew itself once more as representative of the nation...
...route to Baltimore, he was asked about his Oregon debate with Harold Stassen. Said Dewey: "You know, one man told me that debate was just like a truck driver running over a baby, then deliberately driving forward and backward over the body." Then he added: "Of course, that's a little exaggerated...
...fight had "gone across the river" to Jersey. In one corner last week, black-browed and confident, sat Rocky Graziano, onetime Army deserter, middleweight champion and boxing's worst foot forward (he is barred in New York and in Illinois). The boys in the ringside seats noticed the pimples on his back and recalled stories that 26-year-old Rocky had been eating high off the hog since people began calling him "champ...
...Boston's Symphony Hall last week, President Karl T. Compton paused in his earnest degree-dispensing and beamed delightedly as Graduate Jules Samuel Levin stepped forward. Stocky young (20) Jules Levin of Miami Beach, Fla. is quite possibly the outstanding college graduate of 1948. In four years at notoriously tough Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he had racked up a perfect 5 (straight A's)- the first in M.I.T.'s 83-year history. His modest explanation: "I picked up a little momentum...
...minute the water was calm. The next, surging waves crashed against the piers, ships rolled at anchor. Then the stooping, kind-faced man leaned forward and pressed a button-and in a few seconds the water was still again...