Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ninth month slid into the past, the Leftists hastily mobilized peasants and city workers to push the fierce drive few miles to the northwest of Teruel, General Franco's powerful garrison in eastern Spain, 150 miles from Madrid. Again and again the Leftists, backed by war planes, thrust forward in an effort to weaken General Franco's hold in that critical sector lest he succeed in wrecking their communications between Valencia and Barcelona...
...many a week Japanese, harassed by a succession of Government crises and staggering under the biggest military budget in their history, had looked forward to April 14. That day, Japan's leading soothsayers had declared, would be the luckiest in Japan's year. The nation's bamboo-stick-shufflers, temple oracles and stargazers all agreed on this point...
...were negotiating to install ten priests. Father José Maria Flores, who stirred Vera Cruz Catholics to action when a 14-year-old girl had been shot dead after attending Mass in his house, has applied for permission to pursue his calling openly. Throughout the Republic, Mexican Catholics looked forward to new clarification of their status after a general election next July...
Tripping in hockey is an infraction of the rules that calls for a two-minute penalty. Faced with the choice of a two-minute penalty or a goal for his opponents, a shrewd hockey player will often chance the penalty, and this was exactly what Forward Herb Lewis of the Detroit Red Wings did last week when it looked as though Neil Colville of the New York Rangers had a clear shot at the Detroit goal. What happened in the next split second caused the liveliest controversy of the 1937 hockey season, probably settled its most important series...
...improvement displayed by the crew over the past year has been nothing short of remarkable. Carrying forward after a series of disheartening defeats in the early part of last spring, the first boat rallied its forces to score a major upset over Yale in June, leaving the Elis miles up the Thames. The coming of Tom Bolles added coals to the rising fire of enthusiasm, and now the triumph at Princeton marks the first win in a sprint race since the golden days of Killer Cassidy...