Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith sent another Army officer, Major General Sanderford Jarman, to see the 27th's Ralph Smith. Jarman reported back the Army commander's admission: "If he didn't take his division forward tomorrow, he should be relieved." Next morning, the division did not budge. "In this context of all-round poor performance by the 27th Division," Howlin' Mad wrote, he took map in hand and went to see the overall operation commander, Admiral Raymond Spruance. He told him: "Ralph Smith has demonstrated that he lacks aggressive spirit and his division is slowing down our advance...
...advance." In an official memo on the conduct of the 27th, Jarman explained: "I have noted ... a lack of offensive spirit ... A battalion will run into one machine gun and be held up for several hours." Other Army officers reported "fainthearted" attacks, noted "a lack of spirit in moving forward...
...refugees would have little to look forward to at their destination. TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin cabled...
...breast-beating was mostly over; the incurably forward-looking editors had closed ranks and gripped hands on a determination not to commit such sinful errors again. As far as the A.P. was concerned, it had done its usual good job of reporting the state-by-state returns with speed and accuracy. But, like everybody else, it had been slow to realize that the vote was going to contradict the opinion polls. Said the New Orleans Times-Picayune's George W. Healy Jr.: "Even when Truman was leading, [A.P.] always put Dewey first, saying he was leading in ten states...
...fists to his shoclaces, and then straightened with a jump. "Harvard!" he called--to the green bags going to class who didn't turn around; to the gray flannels coming back from Chipp's who just waved and shifted their bundles. Vag gathered up a handful of leaves, started forward, one-two, stopped, spun and then punted over the nearest convertible. The leaves scattered across the canvas but before they were still, Vag was off down Mt. Auburn on the run, leaping to touch the magenia flags with his fingertips. "Har--vard!" he called to the clear New England...