Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocky cliff was jammed with people hanging from every outcropping. At the foot, President Miguel Aleman stepped forward to lay a wreath. Then, one by one, cadet delegations from 16 hemisphere countries marched into the little enclosure, saluted, marched out. There was applause for the Brazilians, the Argentines, the Colombians. Then applause grew louder. It became a roar. High on the cliffside, men shouted "Hi! Hi! Hi!" It had been no mistake after all. Next to cadets from their own Colegio Militar, Mexicans had given the five white-uniformed West Pointers the biggest hand...
...Margaret Street. Said Mr. King: "I understand there is some kind of holy tabernacle there now-that may have been the influence of my early days." To some of the schoolchildren of Kitchener and neighboring Waterloo, he presented citizenship certificates. When eleven-year-old Marie Good came forward in a plaid skirt and jacket, the Prime Minister asked: "How about a kiss...
...Looking Forward. Only once did the visit take a political turn-when the Prime Minister, at an Agriculture Federation outing, forthrightly spoke his views about Canada's burgeoning socialist CCF Party. After praising his own government's efforts to establish social and economic security, the P.M. said: "Let me warn you to beware of change just for the sake of change; or what, in national affairs, is even more dangerous, against accepting at its face value any untried Utopia, or any proclaimed panacea for social ills...
...Soviet's Zhebrak was on solid, safe ground. But he took another dangerous step forward. He admitted the world's low opinion of Soviet genetics. There is an impression abroad, he said, that all Soviet geneticists are followers of Lysenko. This is not so, said Zhebrak. Many Soviet geneticists "are sharply critical of [Lysenko's] theories...
...Drink, No Smoke. Branch Rickey, the smartest man in baseball, had looked hard and waited long to find a Negro who would be his race's best foot forward, as well as a stout prop for a winning ball team. Rickey and his men scouted Robinson until they knew everything about him but what he dreamed at night. Jackie scored well on all counts. He did not smoke (his mother had asthma and cigaret fumes bothered her); he drank a quart of milk a day and didn't touch liquor; he rarely swore; he had a service record...