Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long last, Bender sat down, after nary an aria. The meeting's chairman arose, tried to get in a few words, and was promptly interrupted. George Bender was sorry, but he wondered if someone would come forward to lead the singing. He waited all of two or three seconds for a volunteer, then lifted his arms−and his voice-in a rendition of God Be With You Till We Meet Again. It was a typical Bender performance...
...Forward Not a Foot. The Soviet Union, he announced, wants a new four-power conference on German reunification and is even "willing to discuss" the West's proposals for free elections. The death of EDC, explained Molotov suavely, had created "new possibilities of reconciliation." But if West Germany went ahead with rearmament, he warned, "the restoration of German unity would become impossible." The new Soviet gesture was itself evidence of how much Molotov feared the strength that West Germany would add to the West's alliance. But the Social Democrats, as Molotov had doubtless intended, happily snatched...
...accept any new obligations in connection with Western defense before new serious attempts are made by negotiations with the Soviet Union to solve the question of German reunification on the basis of free elections ..." Replied Adenauer: The four powers had met five times since 1947 "and have brought us forward not a foot...
...Victorian Bourgeois is so optimistic that he sees the future as a figure fairly bursting with progress. But Toynbee believes that the 20th century's thin, frightened young man who sees only a question mark in the future ("Is he perhaps wondering whether he can even look forward to having any successor of any kind?") may be equally wrong. Doom is no more automatic than progress...
Laura Fermi's book. Atoms in the Family (University of Chicago Press; $4) starts with a hike outside Rome in 1924, when she met "a short-legged young man . . . with rounded shoulders and neck craned forward." Fermi was only 22, but already a brilliant physicist. Laura, 16, considered him "pretty...