Word: forward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the spotlight of public interest"), and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice in the affairs of the party and the nation"; Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy was "a liberal and, in the judgment of many, a fighting liberal." But Harry Truman's own favorite, Missouri...
...expected, Husky guards Mike Dvorchak and Dick Brown led their scoring with 15 apiece. The Crimson's Bryant Danner, playing center in a zone defense, successfully checked the opponent's forward line...
...Soviets now have about 100 major operational missile bases in a crescent extending from the White Sea down to the Baltic Coast to former Koenigsberg, and on into the Southern Ukraine and the Carpathians, with some forward launching sites in the Thuringian forest of East Germany...
...Susskind: "We have none of those pernicious and aggravating conditions and taboos that you get everywhere else on TV." Most memorable example to date-WNTA's unbowdlerized production of Jean Anouilh's sex farce. The Waltz of the Toreadors, whose aging lecher-hero is fond of leaning forward to tickle young bosoms with his medals, meanwhile delivering lines not usually heard from TV gag writers: "Science ought to find a way of putting women permanently to sleep; we could wake them up for a while at night; then they would go back to sleep again...
...Blows (Zenith International). A small boy stands at the bottom of a giant tin can, the centrifuge in an amusement park. As the can begins to spin, the centrifugal force moves him to the outer walls. Faster and faster it goes. Soon the boy can move neither backward nor forward; he is the prisoner of the machine. Searching for freedom, he scrambles along the walls upside down. The machine, he discovers, has repealed the natural law that keeps his feet on the ground. It has robbed him of all relationship to the true center of things...