Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect that the only political assistance Mrs. Longworth could render Senate Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois was posing for photographs. It appeared that the Countess was out to explode the "Princess" legend, for business or other reasons. Last week Editor Patterson took another signed front-page thrust at Theodore Roosevelt's daughter...
Arbiter & Wit. At about this time Lord Birkenhead delivered his memorable knife thrust at the late Viscount Younger of Leckie (then Sir George Younger) who fancied himself for the Prime Ministry. "Since the day when the proverbial frog swelled itself up in rivalry with the bull until it burst," he said in part, "no frog ever has been in such grave physical danger as Sir George Younger." Of the Bonar Law Cabinet in 1923 Lord Birkenhead said: "They remind me of the Duke of Wellington's observation upon his generals: 'I don't know whether they will frighten the enemy...
...present economic conditions, which in turn were responsible for the great downward period of the long business wave he said, "Bad financial conditions in Europe created an unsteadiness in America, this waver in business was further increased by over speculation in stocks, and the whole thing was given another thrust in the wrong direction by the agricultural crises. We can further add a number of special causes, the over-production of mootr cars, for example. Again, there are various things that only show themselves during a crisis, all the result of a general lack of public buying power...
...ball on its own 25 yard stripe. Then followed in rapid succession a 25-yard Huguley to Harding forward pass and a Forbes to Batchelder lateral. Huguley and Harding then teamed up to get off another forward and then Batchelder finally carried the ball over on a 4 yard thrust...
...Freshman Class. You are about to join the company and share in the associations and traditions of a great University. You have put away childish things; you have graduated from the nurse strings of school rules and regulations, of a perscribed existence, of standardized thought. You have been thrust into a larger, freer atmosphere, in which your career and your conduct, your success or failure, will rest largely in your own hands...