Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward restoring legislative calm. The House voted $150,000 to buy new chairs for the House floor. The old wooden seats, explained Capitol Physician George Calver, were so long from front to back that when a member sat back, circulation was cut off at his calves. When he sat forward to ease his legs, he tended to slump down, push his stomach up into his lungs, impairing his digestion and breathing. The new armless models would permit members to recline in healthy, upholstered comfort and, possibly, improve congressional dispositions...
...disagreements with new FSA Chief Oscar R. Ewing), resigned in June with the explanation: "I can no longer afford to remain in the Federal Government." Ewing had spent eight months searching for somebody able and willing to fill the job. In spite of all that, Earl McGrath is looking forward to the commissionership. A man who finds relaxation in flying planes and playing Mozart on the piano, he thinks he will have "a great opportunity for leadership." He was one of the authors of the report of the President's Commission on Higher Education (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947), calling...
...tough to get new members, or even to hold on to old ones. It had shrunk to a handful of active chapters. There was nothing left to do but change names again. Soon, as A.Y.D. promised, U.S. colleges would discover a new "Marxist youth organization" on their campuses, "carrying forward A.Y.D.'s . . . militant activity in the interests of young people." But this time it might be harder: Communist fronts no longer seemed to have the attraction that they had had in the piping days of war, or in the first uneasy you-can-get-along-with-Russia days...
...infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with him." And so the bridge is taken, and so the Colonel dies, and so the battalion comes to "The Hill," a point beyond Caen, where the Germans had held long and stubbornly...
John Rockwell and Bob Bramhall will definitely start at forward, and Dick Covey will be at guard. The other guard will come from Chip Gannon, Steve Davis, or Ralph Potrillo, but all will probably see action. Either Bill Prior of Ed Smith will start at center...