Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an hour or two, the white-sheeted Klansmen emerged. With them, regal in his green robes, came Georgia's Grand Dragon, Dr. Samuel Green, who is an Atlanta physician in his spare time. The Ledger's photographer, Joe Talbot, 36, stepped forward, started shooting flashbulbs...
Blindness & Apathy. The committee was not convinced. It thought that China needed military as well as economic assistance. Last week it got plenty of support for this opinion. William C. Bullitt, onetime Ambassador to Russia, came forward to testify that the Nanking government was in immediate need of at least $100 million in outright military aid. To boot, the U.S. should dispatch to China "the best man that can be found"-say, General Douglas MacArthur (see below) or General Mark Clark...
...During the past year I never once thought I would ever look forward to returning to the dreary ruins of Germany. Yet I had such a feeling this week on crossing the border and leaving Czechoslovakia. It is not that I have learned to enjoy living among Germans and their dreams of the past, but on this trip I found it heartbreaking to continue talking with Czech democrats who see nothing but fear in the future...
...Henry Wallace plus a few hundred thousand regular readers of the New Republic, the Nation and PM. It is a region of perpetual fogs, caused by the warm winds of the liberal Gulf Stream coming in contact with the Soviet glacier." Wallace is loaded with "ritualistic adjectives" like "forward-looking," "freedom-loving," "clear-thinking." Such lingo, delivered with the "expansiveness of a Messiah," is just what it takes to make his followers accept Wallace "on his own valuation as a lover of peace who is trying to find a way to avoid World...
...three forward lines outdid themselves in speed and effectiveness, giving back more than they took from the somewhat over-physical Elis. Play was rugged all the way, with 15 penalties dished out by the scrupulous referee...