Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last March it began to recover from the deep gloom of winter, and by late last month was shooting swiftly toward the old critical point of 108-110. There for a fortnight it wavered uncertainly. Last week in a sudden surge of heavy trading the Dow-Jones average was thrust upward to 114-highest level since...
...gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk with vigor, paused to laugh sharply, taking a shrewd thrust at his critics, then continued, making his points vigorously. He was giving newshawks better copy than he had given them in months, but the head of more than one newshawk, bending over his note pad, shook slowly from side to side while its owner murmured...
...came when she was eased past the sunken wreck of the Beignon. Then the four largest electric motors in the world began to turn the Normandie's four propellers, each with a diameter equal to the height of a two-story house, and out into the murk she thrust...
...clock sounds, more preoccupied intellectuals-for-a-day appear on the sidewalk, nervously testing the points of their pencils or considering the ink supply of their fountain pens; some glance momentarily at crumpled sets of notes, then thrust them back into their pockets, apparently overwhelmed by the immensity of knowledge and the frailty...
...France and Italy, Sir John created an impression so unfortunate that Sir Austen Chamberlain K. G., who had been expected, as a onetime Foreign Secretary and half-brother of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, to felicitate His Majesty's Government on the "mission to Berlin," abruptly thrust the notes for his speech back into his waistcoat pocket and rushed off to the Chamberlain stronghold of Birmingham...