Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...assembled throng could rave, and will undoubtedly as the season progresses, about forward John Connors, who specialized in backward, over-the-shoulder layups, and center Dave Slattery, a 6 ft., 3 in. operative with a deadly eye and a knack for un-center-like dribbling...
...stay loose for the Harvard game, Yale used a gag inspired by the hours of watching game movies being run forward and backward to show each man his job. During practice, someone would yell "Stop!" Immediately, the players would stop going forward and start running backward to their original spots-exactly like a reversed movie. As it turned out, that was the only time all year long that Yale moved backward...
...pawns about with the greatest gusto, keeps crying Check! with particular relish, and in the course of the evening makes almost every known move on the board. Now the opportunist wheedles, now the demagogue roars; now a responsible leader advises, now a deft misleader distorts. The nose puncher swaggers forward, the back stabber lies in wait; the party hack mumbles Yes, sir; the man above party shouts Never! In the play's high-stake memory test, wherein the nominee's years-ago Communist flirtation is set against his chief assailant's years-ago sexual misstep...
...above the level of applied science. About the only novel idea is highways with cables carrying high-frequency current under their pavement. The electric field surrounding the cable, says Engineer U. A. Dolmatovsky, will hold automobiles out of contact with the ground and at the same time propel them forward at 150 m.p.h. There will be no accidents no matter how heavy the traffic, because automatically guided cars are free of human error. Such high-speed cars will operate only on main highways. Inside cities says Dolmatovsky, the citizens will use slower, driverless taxis, which will be plentiful and free...
...seven, and he was raised by his mother, who put two other sons through college by working as a Teamster on the loading platform of a Sears, Roebuck store. In high school Baker was almost too good to be true. He was an A student. As a high-scoring forward, he took his basketball team to two city championships. Throwing with his right arm, he pitched his baseball team to victory in the state finals. Passing with his left arm, he led his football team to two state titles...