Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from backwoods Talulla, Miss. On November 26, near Hamhung, Sergeant Pittman volunteered to lead his squad in a counterattack against an enemy-held hill. The Chinese poured down mortar fire, burp guns began their deadly whinny. Pittman went down with a mortar-fragment wound, got up, pushed doggedly forward. A grenade landed in the midst of his squad.* Hero Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl H. Dodd, 26, of Company E, 5th Infantry Regiment, a coal miner's son from Kenvir...
Cambridge's Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 had invited the general to take part in dedicating the city's MacArthur Square, which MacArthur was also reportedly looking forward...
...funeral, Mayor Coëne, wearing his tricolor sash of office, stepped forward to read an oration. Said he: "I salute the mortal remains of Gaston Depestel . . . who has died without ideals in the unjust war of the Viet Nam, for the armament makers and the plantation owners . . ." At that point, an Indo-China war veteran put his hand over the mayor's manuscript and said quietly: "Rien de ça Monsieur le Maire" (Cut it out, Mister Mayor...
Olympian View. For Juan Perón, such personal interventions have grown increasingly rare. Nowadays he prefers to cultivate an Olympian air that keeps him somewhat above the humdrum scene. When he steps forward, it may be for some such purpose as opening the Pan-American games, or announcing that an Argentine laboratory has produced atomic energy...
...trouble came in the final seconds of the tournament, as the scrappy Czechs tied the score at 44 apiece. Russia sank a foul shot, but the nervous player teetered forward across the line. The Czechs called a footfault. The Russians howled "Niet!" The officials first decided that the foul shot counted, then reversed themselves and called for an overtime period, backtracked again and gave the shot and the game to the Russians, amid the ringing boos of the crowd. Final score...