Word: outthrust
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...miles a day, pickled his face and hands in beef brine, and became a symbol of invincibility around the world. He fought from a crouch-the "Jeffries crouch"-his bullet head and meaty body low, his left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom. He beat Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, beat Fitzsimmons again, knocked out Jim Corbett twice. In 1905, at 29, he ran out of opponents and retired, wealthy and undefeated, to raise cattle and prize dogs on his ranch at Burbank, Calif, and enjoy the plaudits due a superman...
...Epstein's old shockers were in the Tate exhibit, e.g., his 1931 Genesis, showing a heavy-featured woman clutching her pregnant, outthrust belly. "Repellent as ever," observed the Times. But no one was much shocked this time, though the public still preferred his powerfully modeled portrait heads. The famous ones-Albert Einstein with his lofty brow and fiercely energetic hair; Nehru, smoldering with deep-eyed intensity; Haile Selassie, imperious in thin-drawn pride; Somerset Maugham, his expression twisted and wry-had the impact of enormously effective sketches, superbly drawn...
...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...