Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clark Clifford and other ranking officials. After three hours and 50 minutes, Johnson and Nixon faced the press. It was Nixon who drew attention to the major risk of the transition period: paralysis in foreign affairs. "The current Administration," said Nixon, "is setting forth policies that will be carried forward by the next Administration." Therefore, Nixon gave his assurances that Johnson and Rusk "could speak not just for this Administration but for the nation, and that meant for the next Administration as well...
...that the actual jumping away from the airplane will be the most terrifying act. It is not. Before you leave, you are crouched on a step almost entirely outside the fuselage of the plane. This experience gives you the feeling of existing as a flying being. You are faced forward into the wind that you are beginning to develop a true understanding for; you expect then, when you step off, to just mingle with it a little further...
...progress of your situation in terms of the instantaneously huge distance between you and the airplane. Because the airplane is turning and accelerating and because your downward speed is accelerating while your forward velocity is decelerating due to wind resistance, the airplane loses the meaning it once had as a geometrical point of reference...
Farneti jumped into the starting position before the Penn game when Marino and Neal were injured and has been there since. He pulled a muscle in his shoulder in the Brown game last Saturday, but he is looking forward to an encounter with Yale's high-scoring duo of Brian Dowling and Calvin Hill...
...that "we know that many students eligible to vote were turned away." It would have been irresponsible of me to pretend to knowledge of many disenfranchised students, when by definition those who could not vote didn't have their votes counted in any way. While several students have come forward declaring that they were not permitted to vote, I have no idea how large a group they were a part...