Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patel has no pretensions to saintliness or eloquence or fanaticism. He is, in American terms, the Political Boss. Wealthy Hindu and Parsi industrialists (like C. H. Bhabha, Patel's son's employer, who has just become Works, Mines and Power Minister) thrust huge campaign funds into his hands. With their money, Congress Party patronage, and ceaseless work, he has built a machine that touches every one of India's conflicts. In every fight his objective is the same-power for India...
...Spaniards spent hundreds of millions to fortify Cartagena. Miles of tunnels, ventilated by shafts driven 100 feet through solid rock, served Fort San Felipe's twelve gun emplacements (one named after each apostle). A stone barrier, thrust across one of the two harbor entrances, forced men-of-war into a narrow passage raked by Spanish guns. Cartagena knew what it was to be sacked (e.g., by Drake in 1585, and the French in 1544 and 1697), but in 1741, the fortifications paid off: the Spanish routed a 28,000-man, 186-vessel British fleet thrown at them by Admiral...
...Sheep's Clothing (May). In Ottawa, on meatless Tuesday, a lunchroom patron thrust a struggling sheep on a pop-eyed waiter, barked: "Make me a mutton sandwich...
...called for a blood donor, drew a pint of carefully analyzed Rh negative blood and replaced part of the plasma with a salt solution to reduce the danger of clotting. Then he wheeled the infant into the operating room. He thrust a hollow needle into a vein in its left ankle, began to drip in the donor's blood. When he had dripped in 100 cc, a safe margin, he nicked the radial artery in the baby's right wrist, attached a tube, let the baby's blood drain out. To keep it flowing freely, he injected...
...small group of physicists gathered in the squash court for the final test. Partly shrouded in balloon cloth,* the pile squatted black and menacing. Within it, all knew or hoped, a monstrous giant sat chained. Control rods plated with cadmium (which readily absorbs neutrons) had been thrust into holes in the graphite. When the control rods were removed, Fermi had calculated, the chain reaction would start spontaneously, and the giant would be free...