Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conservatives convened under the banner of the American Independent Party, a coalition of right-wing forces that claims roughly 1 million followers and has put forward national candidates since 1968. In that year Alabama's George Wallace led the A.I.P. to its greatest electoral success, garnering an impressive 9.9 million votes-nearly 14% of the total cast. But Wallace dropped out of the 1972 race after his near-fatal wounding in Laurel, Md., and was not involved with the organization this year. Ronald Reagan, a leading horseman of the right, was reluctant to leave the Republican Party after...
...shape of a buffalo's head. Stamping their feet, beating on their shields with their assegais and roaring the war cry usutu!, the warrior impis, arrayed like the right and left horns of the buffalo, would begin encircling the foe. Then the main unit-the head-would sweep forward so that the Zulus could use their assegais in close combat. During the twelve years before he was assassinated by his brother in 1828, Shaka built a Zulu empire that extended over hundreds of thousands of square miles and contained some 2 million inhabitants...
...nation's great hospitals; in Manhattan. Rappleye got his M.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1918, worked in various hospitals in California and the Northeast, and taught hospital administration. Named dean of the medical faculty at Columbia at 39, he was a forward-looking educator who adapted the medical curriculum to keep pace with medical progress. In 1961, concerned with the disintegration of services in New York City's municipal hospitals, he arranged for the hospitals to become affiliated with the city's medical colleges. He insisted that medicine should be "a social...
...Division by 7 games, the Royals bask in the front-runner's knowledge that this year playing catch-up is for other guys. The roster includes some of the best young players in either league. Says Director of Player Development John Schuerholz: "We have a lot to look forward to. Our superstars are in the making...
Police had declared they were "ready for anything" and would stop the procession. But the crowd broke through a police line and surged forward, waving placards and singing freedom songs. "We are marching, not fighting," some shouted, making peace signs; others raised clenched fists...