Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming into the - weather mark on a starboard tack and bearing off to port. The foredeck chief and crew will hoist the spinnaker pole. The bow man jumps into the forward hatch and hooks in the guy, sheet and halyard to the spinnaker. As we round the mark, the foredeck crew hoists the spinnaker and lets down the jib. The navigator holds the jib on an auxiliary sheet as the port tailer releases the jib sheet. The port tailer is then free to take in the spinnaker sheet while the other tailer takes in the after guy. Then...
...trunk of the getaway car. Again, no one made a move to interfere and no one noted the license plate. Just as impassively, onlookers looked on as a pair of "robbers" smashed a store window and started looting. Only one man, a 35-year-old civil servant, lunged forward to tackle one of the looters. No one else moved...
...within, and the only outward signs of it are a rumble here, a new wrinkle there. Last week in Honolulu there were rumbles of new ideas. Few reached final determination; some were flatly rebuffed. But for the A.B.A., the mere fact of discussion was a sign, however faint, of forward motion. Items...
...informal solution has naturally been to specialize. But the A.B.A. has no rules or regulations governing specialization. After lengthy consideration of the problem, a committee on the availability of legal services recommended that the board of governors be allowed to draw up standards for certification of specialists. That modestly forward-looking proposal went to the house of delegates, where it was surprisingly defeated. Reason: many of the delegates are small, jack-of-all-fields practitioners who fear that an increase in specialization would narrow the generalist's practice. The vote effectively blocked action on specialization this year, but proponents...
...inch forward toward their goal, the action stops to let each one run over in his mind a private snapshot album of The Ways Things Were. And over across the hill, the Japanese are doing the same. Every cliche is in its niche: the sensitive downy-cheeked youngster who wants to be a lawyer; the noble captain (Wilde) who tells the lad that he "will be a better lawyer for all this"; the hillbilly hankering after "jes' one more woman afore Ah git it." Grisly glimpses of shot-off limbs and other carnage lend the film a certain sense...