Word: outthrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this he ignored. In his right hand, outthrust before him, were three eggs, the offering he was bringing to the Virgin of Guadelupe at her shrine in Mexico City's suburb of Tepeyac. "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus," he chanted as he walked with eyes half-closed. And behind him a chorus, 7,000 voices strong, took up the chant of the rosary: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners...
...Other Shore. It had certainly been a crowded month for Ellis Arnall. He had made a last gesture of splendid defiance toward Herman Talmadge. He had posed for photographers, lower lip outthrust, round face fixed in a fighting expression...
...ports of the U.S. were throbbing. Americans who live inland were little aware as yet of the staggering magnitude of the outthrust of American production. Pictures of the ports in action were rare-what were routine, everyday sights to thousands of citizens in the pulsing coast towns were the gravest kind of military secrets. Day after day the ships docked, loaded and moved out; and at the other end of their voyages men stacked up or dispersed the millions of packages and crates figuratively labeled: invasion-made. The U.S., might...
Akers chopped through a bamboo thicket, came face to face with a bull elephant, trunk raised, tusks outthrust. The beast charged, hooking viciously with a tusk, knocked the pilot beneath a bush. Stunned and suffering from a deep wound, Akers eventually regained consciousness. That night he slept under a tree. Late the next morning he dragged himself to safety, told his strange story...
With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...