Word: forward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank Freidel, Harvard University, author of a multi-volume biography of F.D.R.: "He elected to retain Government responsibility for the welfare of the people. This was his most significant accomplishment. It is what made it possible for Kennedy and Johnson to move forward. If one of the right-wing group had been elected, Kennedy and Johnson would have had to spend a lot of time recouping. With the Eisenhower years as a plateau and a period of consolidation, it was possible to move forward in the Kennedy-Johnson years...
...scene had not been quite so auspicious earlier, as Pierre Elliott Trudeau arrived in the capital in a rainstorm. President Richard Nixon's first state visitor looked unwontedly grave, nervously kneaded his hands, and said rather awkwardly that he looked forward to "the information and wisdom that you will want to impart upon me in your talks." Trudeau had every reason to be wary. His government is upset over U.S. attitudes on oil imports and wheat prices. It is apprehensive about Nixon's Safeguard ABM system. It is engaged in an intensive review of foreign and defense policy...
Where to Meet? Ojukwu's government announced that the "people of Biafra look forward with interest to a visit by the British Prime Minister." Yet a meeting between the two leaders is complicated. Wilson can scarcely visit Ojukwu in Biafra and thereby award tacit British recognition to the rebel government. Ojukwu is unlikely to accept alternative talks aboard a British warship such as Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith held last year...
...many of the best minds in the profession refuse to appear in court, on the grounds that they cannot give adequate and accurate testimony under the rigid rules of the adversary system. As a result, supposedly expert opinion as to a defendant's mental state is sometimes put forward by second-rate practitioners with a talent for publicity...
...prizes ranged backward to an Egyptian diadem and forward to an Art Nouveau silver clip. But his heart was closest to the Renaissance and the lovingly fashioned objects it produced. A brilliantly enameled South German panel, dated circa 1530, that vividly portrays Christ being mocked on the road to Calvary, was either part of a pax, to be used by priests during the Mass, or else decorated a reliquary in a church or a monastery...