Word: athwart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went down with the tug. The other five crewmen managed to launch the small lifeboat. It, too, soon capsized. The only man who could not swim, Gerald Anderson, 17, managed to crawl athwart the upturned lifeboat. One by one the others lost their grip and went down. An hour and a half later the lifeboat washed ashore and Anderson was picked...
Polite Insubordination. One of the most powerful advocates of peace now with the Reds was broad-shouldered, bony-faced General Pai Chung-hsi, formerly China's Defense Minister and now Commander in Central China. He commands four Nationalist armies in the Hankow area, crucial for its position athwart the flow of food (from the Hunan rice bowl) and of munitions (from Szechwan arsenals...
...last week there was unwonted activity among the rolling hills of Grindstone Island, one of the "Misty Magdalens" which lie athwart the Gulf of St. Lawrence steamer lanes. In one spot the scrubby balsam firs had been cleared and a power shovel scooped deep into the earth. At week's end, under a crisp, blue sky, a couple of dozen Madelinot workmen stood around with mining engineers and newsmen to watch a diamond drill bite into the cocoa-colored rock. At a depth of 49 ft. the drill hit high-grade ore containing about 53% metallic manganese. With...
...Patton. Essentially it is a rewrite of Headquarters section reports into a kind of headline-writer's jab-&-smash jargon. It is jerky, often ungrammatical, unblushingly awkward: "The enemy's vitals had been pierced. An Armored poniard was stabbed squarely in the middle of his rear and athwart his main line of communications. . . . The enemy was beset from every quarter in a welter of triphammer blows, chaos, death, and destruction. On the ground and in the air he was mauled and ravaged from every side. . . . Third Army's eviscerating dagger remained pinned and unblunted in their lacerated...
...Punjab, athwart the historic northern invasion route, has long been India's political thermometer. Last week it read "high fever." In Lahore, Amritsar, Rawalpindi and over the intervening countryside, Moslems, Sikhs and Hindus slew and burned in wholesale lawlessness unsurpassed in British India in 90 years...