Word: onwardness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bonelessness, he is something of an Ed Sullivan steeped in aplomb, and presents the very picture of ease and graciousness. Como this year will repeat last season's big audience-getter: religious songs. For Catholics, Como sang a musical version of the Act of Contrition; for Protestants, Onward Christian Soldiers; and for Jews, he wore a yarmulke (skull cap) and sang Kol Nidre...
...attempting to pass, when the truck drifted slowly to the left without signaling. The driver of the Lincoln applied the brakes strongly . . . The truck continued to move to the left, [and] the Lincoln was forced off the highway with the left wheels going into the sand. The truck continued onward. The driver of the Lincoln attempted to turn back . . . apparently to avoid a cement post, and the left front wheel of the vehicle dug into the sand, flipping the Lincoln on its top upon the highway...
...third floor of a Greenwich Village house occupied by a group of unemployed actors and an organization dedicated to the preservation of American Indians. In lieu of rent, Bethke played the piano for the society's weekly meetings. As he recalls, "it was always the same tune - Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...curve, and six spectators who had rushed to help its occupants were killed by a second Ford, which came whipping around the blind turn. A bit later, near by, an Italian co-driver died under his Ferrari after it blew a tire and overturned. The survivors tore onward, and at first lap's end a record average speed of 94.86 m.p.h. was set by one of Italy's top drivers, Felice Bonetto, in a 245-h.p. Lancia. Other Italian-driven Lancias snorted in second and third...
Harry Truman gave our wonderful Douglas McArthur a dirty deal in favor of the Commies. What a happy band of pilgrims when you and he march onward back to Moscow. Goodbye now. Good marching across the steppes. Harry is a great walker...