Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Logically-minded persons thought that since the Japanese goods have already been paid for the only person about to be hurt by destroying these particular goods is the Chinaman owner. They recalled that a shrewder thrust against Japan is being made by rich Chinamen in many parts of the world who are reported to be speculating again the Japanese yen in such fashion as may cause it to become seriously depressed on international exchange...
Edward of Wales, a deft amateur cartoonist, had caught to the life the sombre frock-coated figure of the Chancellor, characteristically enlivened by the fact that he had thrust his large thumbs into the armholes of his waistcoat and expanded his chest with the confidence of a pouter pigeon. Finally Cartoonist Wales had sketched in heroic proportions the glass containing a refreshing beverage-said by some to be whiskey & soda-without which Chancellor Churchill seldom addresses the House at any length...
...Ernest Vilgrain, president of the famed Société des Grands Moulins de Paris. Unlike the Mills of the Gods, the Moulins de Paris grind swiftly, grind more flour than any other chain of mills in France, and grind out steady profits absolutely without the selling thrust of advertising...
Senator. Frank Leslie Smith, the U. S. Senator-elect whom the U. S. Senate declared unseatable last winter, was thrust still farther aside by Otis F. Glenn, a young downstate lawyer. But Mr. Glenn's backer, hero of the great R-e-f-o-r-m movement, was thick-lensed U. S. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, who, only a few months ago, was in league to get Smith seated. This shift was but one of the inconsistencies in Champion Deneen's campaign...
...second thrust of Il Duce was to issue a decree suppressing the Catholic Boy Scouts and all other youth organizations not directly Fascist...