Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Alexander Kinglake, famed British 19th century explorer lusciously described Damascus in his Eothen: "Close along on the Abanah river's edge through seven sweet miles of rustling boughs and superb shade, the city spreads her whole length as a man falls flat, face forward, in the brook that he may drink and drink again; so Damascus, thirsty forever, lies down with her lips to the stream and clings to its rustling waters." Tradition ascribes to Damascus the title "oldest city in the world...
...Mars, they thought, was out of the running, and any poor fool who had a dollar to put on Espino could get ten back if that unruly horse was first. Maiben, up on Crusader, let an inch of rein slip through his hands; the huge horse lunged forward; Mars, his courage broken, slipped behind; only Espino hung on. Inch by inch, his jockey scissoring like a swimming frog, Espino crept up, passed Crusader, won the $26,100 Lawrence Realization...
...toward White Pine Camp.... Suddenly, Presidential Chauffeur Robinson jammed on his brakes. From the car leapt Richard Jervis of the U. S. Secret Service. He shouted: "Dr. Coupal! Dr. COUPAL! The President wants you. Hurry!" Presidential Physician James F. Coupal seized his medicine bag, leapt from his car, rushed forward. Secret service men, newspaper correspondents leapt from various units of the motor cavalcade. In a few, simple words, the President asked Dr. Coupal to stop at Saranac Lake and get him a new pair of fishing boots...
...past fortnight it has been touted that M. Dzerzhinsky was murdered by agents of M. Zinoviev and M. Kamenev. To put down any hint of this M. Stalin is sued a manifesto last week, commanded that M. Dzerzhinsky's work of speeding industrial production be carried forward by the Rykoff Cabinet as a whole. For himself, "Mr. Steel" reserves the harsh detachment of a commander. Ensuing months will show whether, without President Dzerzhinsky, he can advance the schedule of Russian production up to the point of taking care of the now overwhelming and largely unsatisfied demand of Russian peasants...
...their white ducks; bronzed " 'roos" ("Kangaroos," i.e. Australians) from the cattle country; darker aborigines shuffling along in silent excitement; cooing Chinese in bright pajamas. They watched the horizon all morning. Some had gone home for midday tiffin, but most remained, chattering, scanning, pondering, when a school urchin jumped forward, his eyes bulging, his rigid forefinger jabbing northwestward. "I see 'um!" he cried. First it was a mosquito-like speck over the ocean, then an ephemeral insect frame, then a droning, then a roaring seaplane that circled Darwin Heads and harbor, over the blasting sirens of steamers and warships...