Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sullen, stupefied convicts. He jumped Guard Wade, slashed with his knife, wounded him. The new guard, Claude Martin, still sitting down, raised his gun. He never got up. Before he could fire, Conley had grabbed Wade's shotgun, blazed away at Martin with both barrels. Martin fell forward. Conley's partner, Loftin, who had already disarmed the guards at his end of the line, fired another slug into the prone body. Martin rolled over, dead. Conley looked around, saw another guard drawing a bead on him. He raised his shotgun, snapped both empty barrels, just as the guard...
...armed with two torpedo tubes, manned by ten men, will make 47 knots. The poet Gabriele d'Annunzio used to say that their initials stood for "memento audare semper"-"remember always to be brave." Five of them buzzed out from Pegadia to the attack. The destroyer Ilex spurted forward, intercepted them, sank two, damaged a third, and sent the other pair hightailing. As the vessels moved off, Italian planes attacked, but were repulsed with the loss of two. Bored, the British squadron steamed away...
...seats in the House of Commons) to Labor (which has 164 seats). Smart Winston Churchill knew that his only chance to win the war lay in the enthusiastic support of the working classes. Backed by press and public, with no real opposition from the abdicating ruling class, he brought forward such men as Minister of Supply Herbert Stanley Morrison, longtime Laborite Leader of the London County Council and Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin, the horny-handed General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union. The British public, sick of the leadership that had produced Munich and bumbled through...
...Commissioner Damon, with piercing blue eyes, shock of white hair and resonant voice, played a leading role in that change. Since 1893 he has traveled 1,099,787 miles, spoken at countless thousands of meetings, made thousands of converts. Last month 900 sinners came forward at his meetings...
...began their famed shenanigans. Paced by Cecil Isbell, onetime star of Purdue, and Don Hutson, pass-catching nonpareil, they gave the All-Stars a lesson in air maneuvers. Before the final whistle, the professional champions had scored six touchdowns-five of them by dazzling 30-, 40-, 50-yard forward passes. Just to show the Packers' versatility, Packer Ernie Smith kicked a 34-yard field goal in the last two minutes of play...