Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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While the Southerners kept the Senate stalled on civil rights, the Supreme Court last week pressed forward the cause of Negro voting rights in the South. Unanimously overturning the ruling of a U.S. district court in Georgia, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the key section of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which empowers the Justice Department to file civil suit on behalf of Negroes denied the right to vote by local officials...
...crew was lounging amiably at 11 a.m. one day last week when came the blood-curdling aa-oo-uuggghha! of the klaxon that pierces ears and reverberates in stomachs. Bulli and his men exploded from the molehole and raced for their plane. Copilot Richard Franz, 40, scampered up the forward ladder, and started to snap switches. Pilot Bulli clambered after him, swung his leg over the throttle quadrant, taking care not to upset switches or move dials...
...Prime Minister-designate U Nu, the air was festive because China's Chou En-lai had meanwhile agreed to visit New Delhi to discuss the Chinese-Indian border dispute. "The Indian people will overcome difficulties," shouted Khrushchev. "Let pug dogs bark while the Indian elephant marches forward!" "We are with him on this," replied Nehru...
Then, holding in one hand a portrait of Leonora, he started downstage to make his exit with only a few moments left of Act II. When he was a few feet short of the wings, the picture fell from his hand, and Warren pitched forward on his face and lay still...
...quit under fire, as he has done before, and slink off to accept a college presidency? In providing the unimportant answer to this unimportant question, Novelist Hawley shows that he has refined his prose technique since Executive Suite and Cash McCall; the tedium of his narrative's implacable forward progress is now unrelieved by any fresh thought or phrase, or even by a friendly old cliché. The business world is a valid and fascinating locale for fiction, and Lincoln Lord spouting ghostwritten eloquence is a recognizable type. But in telling his story without really analyzing him, Hawley does...