Word: onwardness
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Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward...
...wall that he had laid himself, the intricate rockeries and the stream that he had contrived, by means of pumps, to recirculate uphill. Then they wandered through the rooms of Chartwell, the manor house in Kent where Sir Winston Churchill happily wrote, painted, puttered and sometimes governed from 1922 onward. Bought in 1947 by friends and presented to the National Trust, Chartwell passed to the nation at his death early last year. Now, for four shillings, the public may visit the place where, as he wrote, "I never had a dull or idle moment from morning till midnight...
...Jones?" What is happening is that the folk-rock movement, heady with the success of its big-message-with-a-big-beat songs (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965), has been prompted to try racier, more exciting themes. It is no longer down with the P.T.A. and conformism, but-wheel-onward with LSD and lechery...
...confrontation between South Viet Nam's militant Buddhists and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky careened wildly onward last week. The immolation epidemic of the week before had burned itself out, but the Buddhists had turned to new weapons in their battle to force Ky to resign...
...sinister and Oriental, the voice continues: "Our enemies . . . they've been putting steel wedges in the cracks in our wall of solidarity. The new idea is don't attack America, wear it down gradually . . . and did you know? It's working." Finally, over a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and America, the narrator proclaims fervently: "Democracy is held together by Fourth-of-July flag-waving patriotism ... if you feel a little mist in your eye, then thank God for you, Mister. You're still an American...