Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life, a surgeon at Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital amputated both of Dale's gangrenous legs below the knees. But Dale did not know that. To keep his son's spirits up, Howard Richey brought a new pair of roller skates to the hospital. Dale looked forward to trying them out and the fine time he would have...
...plump pillows at the end of a laundry chute, stood a half-dozen U.S. movie executives. As Cinemogul Joseph Arthur Rank saw them, he blinked and turned up his coat collar against the chill May morning. But then Arthur Rank's face broke into a smile. He strode forward. As the expectant executive smiles faded, he walked over and wrung the hand of Judge Lewis L. Fawcett, the brisk, vigorous executive of the World's Sunday School Association. Cinemogul Rank, a Yorkshireman and a conscientious Sunday-school teacher, was about the Lord's business as well...
...deputies (Trujillo holds signed resignation letters from all Dominican deputies) were put forward as their candidates. One, Rafael Espaillat, has spent the campaign digging in the garden of his little farm outside Ciudad Trujillo. The other, Francisco Plats Ramirez, recently signed a routine resolution of praise for the Benefactor. ("A typist's error," he explains.) Neither man has made a campaign speech...
When it came to rehabilitating Stan Musial, the usual rules didn't apply. He is a "hip hitter" who does his best when ignoring the copybook: holding one shoulder lower than the other, hugging the rear of the batter's box, crouching forward with a ready-to-pounce stance, putting a lot of body wiggle behind his swing. Musial himself blamed his slump on too much golf during the winter and spring; he put his golf clubs into the closet. A slim, conscientious player, who at 26 earns about $27,000 a year, Musial spent hours...
...second biggest in the U.S. in dollar volume, hoped that its foreign-trade zone would lure ships to the mouth of the Mississippi as New York's had brought ships into its harbor. For the South, now filled with a new spirit of industrialization, it was another step forward...