Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While listening to the Democratic convention as continuously as I followed the Republican convention, I observed one striking contrast . . . The Democrats are looking backward on the events of the past, the Republicans are looking forward on the events of the future...
...trial began) testified that he had refused his victims religious assistance "because we were pressed for time, and I know that people who are about to be executed always indulge in talking to the minister." At this the maddened courtroom audience, broke into howls of "Schweinehund!", and surged forward towards Kappler's bench. A muscle danced in his jaw and the saber scar on his left cheek blazed crimson as carabinieri forced the crowd back...
...Hugging the ground, we crawled back up into the kunai grass on our hill and started returning the fire. Seizing the opportunity for a bluff, Stafford yelled out 'Here come Gurkhas! Here comes the army!' His men took up the cry and moved forward in a counterattack, blasting with carbines and Tommy guns. The Communists vanished back into the hills. Five of the six handcuffed women, caught in the murderous crossfire, lay crumpled on the ground...
...eternity my entire household stumbled forward on foot; The people we met were all coarse and brazenfaced. The land rose, uneven, irregular; birds called in the ravines; We did not see a single traveler returning whence we had come...
...London last week, Oilman Ralph K. Davies sealed the deal that he hoped would make his American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, Sept. 1) one of the biggest U.S. producers in the Middle East. Said Davies: "A forward-looking . . . chapter in the history of oil ... The first time a large-scale oil operation has been undertaken in the Middle East by independents...