Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial House has no name. On April 29, 1901 the present Emperor was born and named Hirohito while his grandfather the great Emperor Meiji was yet alive. Because his father was strong neither in body nor in mind (though he begot four lusty sons), Prince Hirohito was thrust into every form of sport, even wrestling. Justly and modestly he has observed: "I am not really good at any sport. In swimming, however, I rather think I can hold...
...peaceful and peace-loving people. We need peace more than any other country in the whole world. Nevertheless, if a war-and I am speaking now not as an official person (for I'm a plain citizen now, I hold no official position)-if a war should be thrust upon us by formal declaration or by surprise we shall defend ourselves...
While Miss Lauer stood by to guard against accidents and too much activity by her patient, he slid himself off his table, caught hold of a horizontal bar affixed to the side wall of the pool. Supported partly by the bar, partly by the deep water, he thrust out his legs alternately as though he were riding a bicycle. Tired of "bicycling," he "abducted" and "addicted" his legs (raised & lowered them sideways), creating great swirls of water. A swim and a walk in four feet of water unsupported by brace, crutch or attendant, are included in his daily 45 minutes...
...second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet at a squirming, greenweed crocodile. But other black men will come after him with silver bullets then, still beating their tom-toms. They will bring...
...season and last week was no exception. The subscription sale opened for the shortened hwa season, went better than it has :or 25 years. Baritone Clarence White-lill's contract expired and as he announced lis departure, his intention to enter motion pictures, he took a parting thrust at Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza: "The Metropolitan is an Italian institution...