Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandmother Dunbar, he wrote romantic prose until he was eight, when he went off to Philadelphia's old St. Peter's (Episcopal) Choir School to sing as a boy soprano and play football in the school's historic cemetery. "I remember," he says, "catching a forward pass on Stephen Decatur's grave." At West Philadelphia High, Darrach began to compose poetry. He kept on writing it as a University of Pennsylvania student, insurance investigator, newsman and TIME editor...
...Generous or Lose. Faure had achieved a mighty step forward: he had won approval for a policy of reform in North Africa, and thereby saved a part of France's tattered international reputation. But he had not done it gracefully. He had blinked at insubordination by high military officers, tolerated defiance from his own ministers, allowed appointees to modify his orders and obstruct his express wishes. In so doing, he had jeopardized his own claim to leadership. Yet his very temporizing had forced Frenchmen to accept the difficult fact: France must be generous to North Africa or lose...
Lesser men seized on his exalting of the "select minority" to forward the Nazi cause, conveniently disregarding his characteristic distinction that "the select man is not the petulant person who thinks himself superior to the rest but the man who demands more of himself than the rest . . ." When Spain overthrew the monarchy, against which he had inveighed so powerfully, Ortega took a seat in the new Cortes but almost immediately found the new republic "sad and sour," nothing like the enlightened instrument of civilization that he had envisioned...
...obligation to return to wives and children with full pockets. On Saturday night, when the sombreroed braceros jammed the streets and shops, Baptist Hernandez sent his preaching teams fanning out through town. Stationing himself in front of the Safeway store, he soon had his Mexican listeners pressing forward to make "decisions for Christ"-though some were just being amiable to the young man in fine clothes who played the wonderful, sad music. None of the Mexicans were baptized during the crusade; their names and addresses were merely taken with the intention of sending them on to the nearest Baptist mission...
...well-rested players will help bolster the Crimson forward wall. Metropouios will be back in his regular right guard slot, where he played before a muscle pull forced him to sit out the Crimson and Dartmouth games. And the first sophomore to start for the varsity this fall, Marv Labovits, will replace Jan Meyer, out with a pulled muscle, at center...