Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York last week, just before his departure homeward (see PEOPLE), Soviet U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko was the victim of another thrust. Chatting with Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace and Canada's U.N. Delegate General A. G. L. McNaughton, Gromyko confided that he hadn't been able to get a decent apple since he arrived in the U.S. Agricultural Expert Wallace asked General McNaughton to suggest a couple of first rate Canadian varieties for the Russian. "Well," McNaughton drawled, "we have Mclntosh Reds-also the Northern...
Under the watching eyes of Manila police, Taruc strode to the office of President Elpidio Quirino in Malacanan Palace, thrust out his hand to Constabulary General Mariano Castaneda, whose main job for two years has been to hunt Taruc. Castaneda ignored the hand, frisked the man. Taruc carried no weapons (though the seven-man bodyguard he brought along yielded, among other items, nine pistols, two submachine guns and two crowbars). Later, having pledged his loyalty and cooperation to the government and watched President Quirino sign the amnesty, Taruc seized the constabulary chief's hand and pumped it vigorously...
...Word to Mother. A radio announcer thrust a mike at victorious Joe Louis. "For my mother. This is for her," Joe said into it. "Tonight was my last fight...
...days last week the unsightly faces of isolationism and reaction had bobbed ominously to the surface. They had been thrust down-but not without a struggle. G.O.P. progressives, trooping wearily off to bed before entraining for Philadelphia, had salvaged the good record of the 80th Congress...
...Flying Wing YB-49 is the second to be built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc. (the first has been undergoing test flights since last October). A queer, tailless bird, the YB-49 is powered by eight jet engines, with a thrust roughly equivalent to 32,000 h.p., making it the most powerful bomber in the world and one of the fastest...