Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wearing a broad-brimmed hat. "I once played the mandolin all the way from Fort Wayne to Nashville without stopping!" he thunders into a microphone. "Don't nobody think I can't play all night if I want to!" As the crowd cheers, the big man leans forward and madly strums the opening riffs to Orange Blossom Special. Says a woman in the second row: "I just love it when Bill gets to roaring like that...
...party worker. "That's all they had ever known." While leftist parties did open some offices in villages, they made few converts. In one pueblo, a leftist coalition called a rally and found exactly two people in attendance. "Comrades," began one of the speakers, whereupon the two men stepped forward and identified themselves as Civil Guards. "You don't have to do it for us," said one of the cops...
...high-level Danish officer; "There has been a vast erosion of our warning time in case of attack." The Danes talk about a "Yom Kippur War syndrome," recalling that in 1973 Cairo was able to surprise the Israelis partly because the Egyptian army had been pressing its maneuvers forward little by little and holding them frequently. Says a top Danish military official: "We must be careful that we do not accept the repetition of the unusual as normal...
Ames Astrophysicist Edwin Erickson. The team leader, Rodger Thompson of Arizona, who announced the find at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta, declared the MWC 349 observations to be "a spectacular step forward in the theories of planet and star formation...
...Braun ignored both the criticism and the praise, concentrating on his goal of turning the space race into a vehicle for international cooperation. He once said: "I look forward to the day when mankind will join hands to apply the combined technological ingenuity of all nations to the exploration and utilization of outer space for peaceful uses." That day has not yet arrived, but Von Braun's work has certainly helped to bring it closer...