Word: forward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undoubtedly, the nation's police are better today than they ever were in the past. But manifestly they are not good enough. For every step forward, there have been two steps backward in the growth of slum populations; for every advance in understanding of minorities, there have been two retreats in growing ghetto resentment and despair. Widespread corruption is by no means a thing of the past. A study prepared for the President's crime commission, leaked this month, claimed that in ghetto areas of three cities?Chicago, Boston and Washington?27% of the police regularly committed offenses that would...
...Sutherland fighting. The regiment became famous throughout the empire when a London Times correspondent in 1854 sent back a dispatch on "the thin red line" of Argylls, standing two deep, that withstood a Russian charge at Balaklava in the Crimean War. When the outnumbered troops started to move forward to fight it out hand to hand, their commander, General Sir Colin Campbell, halted them only by bellowing out: "Ninety-third! Ninety-third! Damn all that eagerness...
Lindsay, in a passionate appeal for nonpartisanship, proposes Eugene McCarthy for Vice President, and again the nomination is unanimously approved. In the evening, Rockefeller and McCarthy appear together on the platform. Rocky acknowledges the cheers with repeated winks, then cries: "Let the new politics continue from this day forward!" McCarthy predicts that "the Fusion Party will sweep to victory in November...
Gained Riches. With a London-to-Sydney auto race planned for this fall, Britain has already begun to look forward to next year's top event. To mark the 50th anniversary of the first transatlantic airplane crossing (made by two Britons in a Vickers Vimy bomber), the London Daily Mail has put up $12,000 for the person who makes the fastest trip between the top of London's General Post Office tower and the top of the Empire State Building...
...expand his unit to a capacity of 42 patients. Thousands of kidney-failure victims are dying each year, he insists, for lack of such facilities. A further drawback is that each patient is tied down to within easy reach of his own unit. Avram looks forward to the day when there will be "dialysis hotels" or "human Laundromats" where patients can check in at night, wherever they happen to be, get hooked up and dialysed, and leave in the morning...