Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his whole strength. His arms stiffen, and he is as likely to steer off the road as along it. His legs are forcibly extended, and his feet are pressed down hard. It is the muscular act that Sherrington, who discovered it in the dog, named the 'extensor thrust.' . . . In so doing [the motorist] presses his foot hard down on the accelerator pedal. If then the first jump of the car sends it along a course where it meets other jolts and bumps in rapid succession, the driver tries in vain to recover the equilibrium...
...fully developed in newborn babes, unshakable by training. Now that it imperils motorcar operators, Dr. Henderson thinks it could be successfully sidetracked by installing a pedal in the shape of a wide panel almost flush with the floor boards under the driver's left foot. When the "extensor thrust" shoots both his legs out, though the right foot may jam down the accelerator, the pedal pushed by the left foot will turn off the ignition or close the carburetor intake...
...Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes thrust his leonine head forward over the shining mahogany bench and solemnly demanded...
Maintaining that the "complete cessation of trade with Italy would have an infinitesimal effect upon American business," Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance in the Business School, made a critical thrust at an all embracing embargo...
...many of the teachers this independence is a painful burden. Two classes, indeed, are sheltered by the university: those livers on the fat of the land, the House masters, and the young, unmarried tutors. But these constitute a small minority. The rest have independence thrust upon them, and are cast out to struggle in the Cantabrigian wilderness...