Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take them. Oh yes, he'll take the goal that broke RPI's back, and he'll take the season that has turned him from an unheralded forward--just another jersey, helmet and stick--into a hockey gem, a composite of diamond...
...When things are going in, they're going in," said Janfaza, a senior who scored his 15th goal of the year Saturday. "Call it lucky. That's the way things have been going for me. I'll take it, and I look forward to next weekend...
...frenzy intensified in January, when the airlines began to offer "triple mileage" -- three miles' credit for every mile flown. Suddenly flyers could look forward to earning that dream vacation to Hawaii in one-third the time. Forced to match one another to stay competitive, the airlines fret that the frequent-flyer programs have spun out of control. The number of passengers participating has surged from 4 million in 1983 to 8 million now. They hold nearly 30 million memberships in frequent-flyer plans, since many passengers sign with more than one airline...
...hilly precincts of Chattanooga these days, a lot of get-ahead people are doing combat against the peril of forward tongue carry. They are running through word lists, striving to keep their monosyllables crisp: "What kind of boy is George? Mean. Mean-mean-mean-mean-mean...
...ring on the tip of his tongue, draws it into his mouth, and presses it up against the ridge behind the front teeth. It is an exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue carry but also from unwanted "nasal emissions" (or twang), "restricted mandibles" ("a big phrase for talking with your mouth closed") and "oral-facial muscular imbalance...