Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Onward & Upward. In 1933 Shuman married Ida Wilson, an Indiana-born math teacher. By that time, he was climbing the ladder in the Farm Bureau, which he joined in 1929. By 1945 he was the $7,500-a-year president of the statewide Farm Bureau. Its offices were in Chicago, but Shuman decided it was best for his four children to grow up on the farm. After nine years, Shuman moved into the top spot of the national organization in 1954. Ida, whom he credits with having provided much of his drive, died four months before his election...
...Onward Christian soldiers...
...months the U.S. economy has been in a state of virtual euphoria, hearing the President declare that "I do not believe recessions are inevitable" and reveling in the onward-and-upward statistics. Lately, many economists have begun to question just how long the 52-month boom can continue, and only two weeks ago the President's chief economist, Gardner Ackley, cautioned that "our expansion is going to slow down a bit in the months ahead." Still, nothing had prepared the public for the shock caused by Bill Martin when he stood up and told the U.S. that it could...
...million population. Party Boss D. N. Aidit suggested that Indonesia's 412,000-man armed forces be "supervised" by politically oriented NASAKOM ("guided democracy") cadres, which the P.K.I. believes it could dominate. That seemed all right with Sukarno. "Go ahead," he urged the P.K.I. "Go onward and never retreat...
Died. Chen Cheng, 67, Vice President and former Premier of Nationalist China, an austere soldier-statesman who was Chiang Kai-shek's strong right hand from the early 1920s onward, fought against the warlords, the Japanese and the Communists, introduced the 1949 Taiwan land reform that made 90% of the farmers masters of the land they worked, and until his own ill health and the rising fortunes of Chiang's son reduced his power, was regarded as the Generalissimo's heir presumptive; of liver cancer; in Taipei...