Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...younger, liberal element in the church. Tall, silver-haired Father McCarthy went to Los Angeles in 1937 at his own request, just after he had been ordained in Springfield, Mass., in his home diocese. "I don't think I could have stood New England," he says now. "The forward movement is so imperceptible...
...concerned and I take it for granted that she handles the stone situation." In Runyonese there was only one tense, the universal present, for the characters who used it were usually too engrossed in the immediate moment to look either backward or forward...
...George do it-or even Philip Murray. A steel strike sooner or later might have shut down the auto industry; now the auto workers were just where they wanted to be, carrying the C.I.O. ball for a fourth-round increase in U.S. industry. It was a nice forward pass (completed): Murray to Truman to Reuther...
Keener came home with more than salutes; he also had $2,000,000 worth of contracts in his pocket. This week, starting a second jaunt, Sam Keener was looking forward to more salutes during his stopovers in the world's principal cities. Out of it, Keener hopes to snag additional millions in new business...
...Murphy began, Stryker leaned back and closed his eyes, trying hard to look bored. Before long he was sitting forward, listening closely. "Let's see if we can't apply reason and not emotion," Murphy began quietly. "You can't say 'I don't like the guy, I don't like the way he combs his hair, and I wouldn't believe him on a stack of Bibles.' You have to apply reason...