Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese tanks thrust snorting into Tazang in the wake of a "creeping barrage" laid down by land artillery, supplemented by the big guns of Japanese warships. Infantry swarmed in only after the tanks had dashed back & forth through the streets of Tazang, "shooting up the town" to break Chinese morale. Behind the Japanese troops came Japanese armored cars and "mopping up squads." These found such grim evidence of stubborn resistance in the face of certain death as Chinese machine gunners who had handcuffed themselves to their guns and died at their posts...
Leverett came right back and proceeded to march 70 yards down to the Deacon two-yard stripe. The march was featured by right end Bob Seaman's spectacular catch of Rick Rabenold's aerial on the five-yard line. Here, however, the Deacons dug in, and the Rabbit thrust ended...
...Rutherford to acquire one. Rutherford was unimpressed. In Brussels, Cockroft asked Lawrence to give the old physicist a sales talk. Lawrence assented. Lord Rutherford declared it to be one of his principles that the equipment used at Cavendish should be developed there. Young Dr. Lawrence made a quick-witted thrust: "Sir, you use spectrometers in the laboratory every day, but they weren't invented there, were they...
...Hillyer is a man who has long held that the roots of true poetry are thrust deep in the traditions of centuries. His is not the frigid, classical view of the pedant, however, for he knows that poetry changes with the decades. But poetry to him is sacred, and in an age of frantic, formless compositions whose only worth lies in the white heat at which they are forged, Mr. Hillyer's poetry strikes a sure note. A sincere consideration of "A Letter to Robert Frest and Others" proves that Mr. Hillyer's poetry will stand the test of time...
...That was posed by a Chinese soldier in a Japanese uniform!" shrilled Lieut.-Colonel Tan Takahashi of the Tokyo Japanese General Staff to Manhattan reporters. "Our Japanese bayonet technique is entirely different from that and I can prove it!" Grabbing a pencil, the Japanese officer thrust, ripped and jabbed an imaginary enemy while yipping war cries with such realism that a female reporter was overcome with queasiness...