Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unnoticed by Mr. Bingham, who was busy vetoing rule modifications, General Eisenhower, cast at least one ray of light on a clouded situation laght night. "I am not available," he parried to reporters after they had thrust. Ox DaGrosa could not be reached...
...Chief staple: poi, a fermented paste made from taro root. "And an unseductive mixture it is," wrote Mark Twain, who nevertheless was fascinated by the native method of eating it: "The forefinger is thrust into the mess and stirred quickly around ... the head is thrown back, the finger inserted in the mouth and the delicacy stripped off and swallowed-the eye closing gently, meanwhile, in a languid sort of ecstasy...
...Frieda, the fraulein whom her nephew married to repay for helping him escape from a German prison camp. Miss Zetterling portrays a hard-faced, stoical Frieda at first, but gradually develops her role of the misunderstood German girl, hated by the small English town into which she has been thrust, until her husband finally comes to know and love her as the warm, understanding person...
...keen appetite for dinner. At 0800 [the next morning] we heard that Montgomery had been made a Field Marshal and proclaimed the greatest living soldier. Our appetite for breakfast was not so good." He quotes with approval Bradley's comment that Monty's promise of a "dagger thrust" at Germany would be more like a "butter-knife thrust...
When one member of his audience told him that neighboring college girls say they resent being thrust into the role of wife and mother, Mowrer replied; "If they don't do it. I do not know who will...