Word: outthrust
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...lying snugly behind their three-mile limits, a tradition established 250 years ago, when three miles was the span of a cannon's shot. In the modern world of atoms, rockets, and planes swifter than sound, the wall of the fortress is invisible. The wall is electronic-an outthrust barrier of radars, direction-seeking radios and - aiming instruments. For both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, it has become vital to spot and plot the ever-shifting shadows and strengths of the adversary's invisible frontier...
Cheers, Promises. By the time Castro reached the outskirts of Havana, every factory and shop was closed, and the streets, balconies and rooftops were packed with a clapping, shouting crowd. Marmon-Herrington tanks cleared a path for Castro's Jeep. Rebels with outthrust rifles finally forced the way through the throngs to the palace, where Castro got a warm abrazo from his hand-picked President, Manuel Urrutia. "I never did like this palace," Castro told the crowd, "and I know you do not either, but maybe the new government will change our feel ings." Later, at Camp Columbia, where...
Frank Brewster, boss of the Western Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, shook his massive head at photographers and demanded that they refrain from taking pictures of him "with my finger in my nose." Then, jaw outthrust, Brewster turned to the Senate's McClellan committee and began reading a 40-minute statement elaborating upon the virtues of himself and his teamsters. "We," said Brewster, "support the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts and the Green Cross Safety Organization." By week's end it was clear that the Teamsters' Western charities went even further than that...
...preceded by a sound truck, blaring songs and the repeated injunction: "Be like your pappy and vote for Happy." By the time 'the audience's feet were tapping out the rhythms, the candidate himself rolled up in a big black car, grinning and waving, pumping outthrust hands. After his speech -always approximately the same ("It's won for me-why should I change?")-Happy rang down the curtain with a song, usually There's a Gold Mine...
...President in turn was angered when a reporter asked for his version of ex-Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin's contention that Eisenhower had agreed to 19 specific changes in the Taft-Hartley Act, and then run out on his word (TIME, Oct. 5). Said the President, jaw outthrust and eyes cold: he refused to speak of personalities publicly. To his knowledge, he had never broken an agreement with any associate in his life. If there was anyone there who had contrary evidence, he could have the floor and make his speech. In stony silence, the President waited...