Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reno's life from that day forward was a dismal descent into dishonor...
...words about a one-round Liston-Patterson fight and who has himself gone ten rounds with Jose Torres. Yet when others use boxing metaphors, he winces, demanding a better performance; the image, he implies, is his own thing, and indeed, when he cups his hands, leans forward, and drops one like "Maybe only cowards have problems," the style he has created for himself becomes complete and believable...
...fought ever since to win draft exemption. After losing three separate petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court and endless other legal maneuverings, Clay, 25, showed up at Houston's induction center, dutifully submitted to preinduction tests with 35 others, and then refused to take the symbolic one step forward that signals induction...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson made his intentions clear at a caucus of Parliament's Labor Party members. "I believe," he said, "that Europe could be on the verge of a great move forward in political unity and that we can-indeed we must-play a part in it. When something is at stake of this degree of importance, the role of Britain is on the field and not on the touchline,* casting praise, blame or bottles...
...chilly, gray Friday in Houston, and Clay had been inside the induction center for hours. Newspapermen and assorted fans were milling around. Then the colonel came out and told them what they had known would happen all along. Cassius Clay had refused to step forward when his name was called. He had refused to enter the United States Army...