Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comedy in A Sea Change comes bubbling from the familiar old wells of human vanity, but the effect of this particular bucketful is to give the U.S. butcher-paper weeklies a good dousing. Dennis' fictional magazine is called Forward, its wealthy owner is social-minded Mrs. Gertrude Morgan, and its readers are advanced, intelligent people who have no patience with old notions of simple, pre-Freudian goodness, pre-Marxian prosperity or purely American foreign policy. At pretending to know what they don't know, Forward's editors are impressive, and none is more so than swarthy, neurotic...
...such happy jottings were soon to be interrupted. At a mass press conference with Mussolini, Divver was jostled accidentally and raised a protesting voice; he was ejected, shouting and waving his fist, and at once became a hero back home. Too cowardly to refuse his accidental fame, Divver became Forward's expert on Italian affairs. Practice in the use of every advance-guard cliche made him, in time, an editor...
...attributed to them, they would doubtless deserve severe criticism." But he pleads also for open-mindedness on the part of the West: "It is of the utmost importance that biologists in this country should be able to appreciate both the positive and the negative elements in the views put forward by Lysenko." As a scientist, he begs both sides to assume that one of the two concepts does not necessarily rule out the other, and to work at the problem with ultimate truth as the goal...
...Liberalizing the "carry-back" and "carry-forward" tax provisions which enable businessmen to cut their business losses...
...angry nation and an aroused Congress demanded that the U.S. Government enter the gang-busting business. The Department of Justice stepped forward with 21 ready-made laws that would give Director Hoover the power he needed, and Congress quickly passed them...