Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mayor Joseph Barr of Pittsburgh looked up at darkened skies and quipped: "Rain, very bad for elections. Can't get out the vote when it rains." But the observers were cheerfully optimistic: "I look forward to a successful election," said Senator George Murphy of California. "It will not be unlike an election in Beverly Hills...
finally touched bottom, only to pitch forward exhausted in the shallow water. "Crawl, Stew, crawl," shouted his wife Pauline from the beach at Point Bonita-and Evans slowly crawled out of the water straight to her side...
...numerous caribou and three grizzlies, the hunters unsportingly use a helicopter instead of their feet. Though he hardly clarifies his intention, Mailer apparently figures that he has thus allegorized Vietnam as a case of Texas-style Americans neurotically in love with war. The book ends with DJ. happily looking forward to hunting guerrillas as well as grizzlies. Says he: "Vietnam, hot damn...
Despite that vital omission, even President Lyndon Johnson was quick to register his pleasure. "If we now go forward to completion of the worldwide agreement," said the President's statement, "we will pass on a great gift to those who follow...
...hesitate. It rumbled on toward Kallah, which was heavily defended by tanks and Russian SU-100 tank destroyers, machine guns, mortars and bazookas. The only access was through a zigzag of mined concrete traps, and the Israeli tanks, now commanded by Lieut. Naty, could only crawl a few yards forward before having to back up, wheel sideways and inch forward at a fresh angle. They provided tempting targets for the furiously firing Syrians. A shell caromed off Naty's tank turret, silencing his radio. He raced to another tank and jockeyed it into the spearhead position...