Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after seven months of planning, seven weeks of committee hearings, eleven days of grueling debate, passage in the Senate was already assured. The climax had come at exactly 5:05 p.m. the day before, when Ohio's Senator Robert Taft planted his feet squarely behind his Senate desk, thrust both thumbs into his pants pockets, and launched into a 90-minute attack on ERP's most vulnerable point: its size...
Opening up the profund mysteries of Newtonian physics or thermodynamics to an audience that once thought itself incapable of such heady stuff, LeCorbeiller tosses in Einstein, Euclid, Plato, or Aristotle wherever they are relevant--and often with a sudden thrust of refreshing Gallic humor...
Power scored a hit as a dashing Caribbean pirate in "The Black Swan," so he has again been thrust into the locale of his former triumph, this time as a member of the Cortez expedition. But Tyrone has been shortchanged; Twentieth Century Fox, though providing violent color contrasts, strident blaring music, and earthy young Jean Peters, has neglected to furnish a blood and thunder plot. Of course, there is a photoplay, something about Cortez and the Inquisition and the trials of chivalry; but in the category that counts, the number of varlets pinioned per reel, it falls woofully short. Power...
When Polish Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz got home from Moscow last week, fellow officials were waiting at the station. They thrust a bouquet of red carnations into his hands the moment the train screeched to a stop. . .The red posies were justified. Moscow had promised Cyrankiewicz a dazzling price for Poland's abstention from the Marshall Plan: a five year, billion-dollar trade agreement-plus a $450 million credit (the largest ever granted by the Soviet Union) and immediate delivery of 200,000 tons of Soviet grain...
Lunge, parry, thrust. For 19 years Coach Rene Perey has been grooming undergrads in how to pink their opponents most gracefully and efficiently in the age-old art of fencing...