Word: onwardness
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...green shoots covered his 50 acres, promising a 20,000-lb. yield of beans. At sundown the next day every single sprout had been devoured down to the ground, below the ground. The land was almost out of sight beneath a dusty- grey, endless horde of grasshoppers, plodding inexorably onward, eating every shred of living vegetation. There were dozens and scores of 'hoppers to the square foot, millions to the acre, trillions to the county. Government scientists and reporters crunched around the countryside in automobiles, killing hundreds of 'hoppers at every turn of a wheel. Against some houses...
...solitaire called Idiot's Delight. That is the cosmic view as modernized by Robert E. Sherwood, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are made to sit in a resort hotel in the mountains of Italy that were Austria's not so long ago and welcome in the Second World War. "Onward Christian Soldiers" comes forth from them and the piano to mingle with the crash of bombs and the tinkle of glass in the sporadically lit-up darkness. But in with the searing cynicism of their rendition of the martial hymn, there is somehow a terrible heroism. And the theme...
After telling the many ways in which pain may be relieved by the onward march of modern science, the doctor emphasized that "there will always be pain," that "many people demand it," and that "pain is by definition ordinarily distressing...
...boast that he "landed in the most beautiful building in the world." The son of a Polish furniture dealer, he was born 70 years ago in New York City. He was too poor to go to school more than four years, or to afford regular music lessons. From 13 onward, he fiddled at parties, skating rinks, theatres, a waxworks museum, learned English when he played for nothing at the old Union Square Theatre. He was still a boy when he met Violinist John Douglas, the talented son of a Negro slave who had studied at the Paris Conservatory but could...
...Queen Helen") Werner, who was an apple-cheeked Tennessee mountain girl when she went West to make good. She has lived in Los Angeles since 1920 when she married Erwin P. ("Pete") Werner, an indifferently successful lawyer, who she determined would someday be Governor. As she pushed her husband onward and upward, Queen Helen became adept at the solid kind of political maneuvering that women master infrequently. In 1929, after she had managed Pete Werner's successful campaign for city attorney, Queen Helen was so important politically that she found it necessary to open a downtown office to handle...