Word: onward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, Lenny Bernstein would come on-camera to explain it. Introducing "Mom" Walker, chief telephone operator at convention headquarters, Sahl said: "They have good exchanges for a convention-like RUthlessness, BLitz, AVarice and MAchine." Deadline for Treason. Teeth flashing, head characteristically bobbing, muttering "Onward! Onward!" between jokes, Sahl always managed to seem surprised when people laughed. "I'm for capital punishment," he declared bitingly. "You've got to execute people-how else are they going to learn?" The line rivaled his best on birth control: "I says to my girl...
...correct Frenchmen in cutaways. Then, standing on a carpet that had originally been woven for Napoleon's Josephine, he plunged into a round of handshakes in his now familiar manner-a quick look down for the hand, a look up for the owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat and pillbox hat, her arms full of orchids. The rest of the family trooped in afterward-Daughters Julia, Rada and Elena, Son Sergei and Son-in-Law Alexei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia. It was the first...
...doing?" the scientists will ask. "What's the extent of high-energy radiation, the density of cosmic dust, the temperature, the quality of magnetic fields? What's the weather like?" And the answers, delivered by radio into machines on the rotating earth will push the dialogue onward, enabling man one day to launch himself into space...
Three men of widely differing temperament, views and backgrounds stand out in the white communities of eastern and southern Africa facing the onward rush of black nationalism...
...hero forges onward and downward, square-jawed and indomitably prissy, his footsteps are dogged by the usual unmitigated cur (Thayer David), and loyally followed by four trite and true companions: a plucky youth (Pat Boone), a good-natured giant (Peter Ronson), a beautiful widow (Arlene Dahl) and a noble-souled duck named Gertrude. (The widow, of course, is present over the hero's most passionately prudish protests. "But madam, think!" he gasps. "The lack of privacy...