Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rocks. Starving, last week he entered a village to search for food. Five hundred dollars is a lot of money to a Turkish village. Townsmen turned him over to the authorities. Next day Ismael Husseyin swung from the gallows he had once cheated, his blackened tongue impudently thrust at his captors. On his breast swung a placard: THUS ARE PUNISHED TRAITORS TO THE RE PUBLICAN REGIME OF KEMAL PASHA...
Having an idle moment I glanced at the correspondence in a copy of TIME. Distance lends enchantment, but in any case I found your replies brief and piercingly to the point. But I was struck by the difference between the system of thrust and parry, illustrated by your pages devoted to the letters of clients, and that of any normal argument...
While Fisticuffer Max Schmeling, "heavyweight champion of the world," was talking with a group of friends in the Commodore Hotel Lobby in Manhattan, a slight, 19-year-old boy approached him. thrust out a paper and said: "Here's a summons for you." Then he dropped the paper at the fighter's feet. What happened then is told by him in a legal deposition: "Schmeling. his face working in anger, yelled at the top of his voice and then . . . grabbed the seat of my trousers and violently rushed me to the stairway, shaking me in all directions...
...crippled University quintet lost to Dartmouth last Saturday night, February 7, by a score of 34 to 16, after a powerful and unresisted second-period thrust on the part of the Indian team had put the Crimson players on a somewhat frantic defensive. The game, played at Hanover was the third Crimson defeat in a series of nine games...
...country were devoted to social problems rather than the making of money, economic life could readily be rescued from its inhumanity. . . . Unless we adapt our capitalistic society to the needs of the present age and adapt it to social planning and control,* some form of Communism will inevitably be thrust upon our children. Meanwhile verbal attacks on Communism will avail us nothing...