Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago's Union Station, amid the hurrying crowds, Marine veteran Alfred Wiley thrust magazines into the hands of his wife, handed candy bars to his two little sons. As he hoisted them aboard the Burlington's Advance Flyer, he kissed them all goodbye. At 12:35 p.m. the 13-car train pulled...
Flattening the rails under the thrust of its screeching brakes, Bill Elaine's bullet-nosed diesel locomotive ripped through the steel rear Pullman like gutting a catfish and buckled the lighter diner ahead. Said a priest: "I saw bodies . . . decapitated . . . crushed beyond human shape." The total death toll...
...amendments to the Price Control Act would merely strangle the OPA slowly rather than end it with one clean knife thrust. Conspicuous spending in Miami Beach bistros and metropolitan race tracks make good reading but represent hardly a trickle of the national spending power waiting to burst out of the temporary confines of banks and bonds. When the new Price Control Act requires that ceilings on any item whose production for "a 12 month period is equal to its production for the peak year, July 1940 to June 1941" be lifted, economic dynamite is being held too near the flame...
...survived even this bitter thrust. He plastered California with billboard advertising. He went on lending even in the depression. And he went on expanding...
...with the cold and the mud." Yet even air intelligence officers had their share of bombs to duck, their jobs to do. Off the Salerno beachhead Major Sheean's ship, the Ancon, stood up to 19 German bombings in one day. Beyond Salerno itself a sudden German ground thrust nearly caught Major Sheean asleep, forced him to evacuate in such a rush that "my rare and wonderful air mattress" had to be left behind. Later, disgusted by the effects of "neoFascist" Churchillian policies in Italy and the protracted Italian land campaign, he asked to be transferred...