Word: onwardness
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...keep his country behind him for peace; Hitler, after winning support through an appeal to racial prejudice, claims now that he can keep it in check; but Roosevelt, in a still free country, carries out a large expenditure, and the country now shows signs of carrying him onward beyond even his reason...
...Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi decreed that from your next New Year's Day onward the name of Persia shall be Iran...
...small official stipend. The day came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward and upward. President Taft made him Minister to Chile. President Wilson promoted him to Ambassador, shifted him to troublesome Mexico. President Harding made him Undersecretary of State, later Ambassador to Belgium. President Coolidge appointed him Ambassador to Italy. He got the job of taking President-elect Hoover on a personally conducted...
...ambitions has dehumanized him so utterly that he no longer is a feeling, loving human, but a grasping, cruel robot, who sweeps everything before him. He is not unkind or inconsiderate to those whom he has succeeded in dominating, for they no longer mean anything to him. He drives onward to a goal which he does not know until finally he is destroyed by the shattered roots of his past, which rise again and make him feel the aimlessness and brutality of his life...
...have $10, and are willing to contribute it, to stand up." About 25 delegates arose. "Well, it doesn't have to be $10. Have you got $5? Form a line and come up and give anything you can." Organist Firmin Swinnen swung into "Onward Christian Soldiers." By dozens, by hundreds, by thousands, the Episcopalians trooped up to the altar. Singing fervently as they marched, they pulled $10, $5 and $1 bills from their wallets, fluttered them on the altar steps like autumn leaves. When the last of 5,000 people had passed by, Bishop Perry shuffled into the pile...