Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program, if approved by Congress, would thrust Government funds and Government controls deep into the building industry. It would put an important segment of the U.S. economy under wartime discipline at a time when the industry and the country as a whole expected to be returning to the ways of a free market...
When jurors scoffed at his story that he and his mysterious Resistance band killed only Gestapo hirelings, 49-year-old Petiot proved that at least three of his victims were German agents. As neatly as he had carved up his victims, Petiot parried and thrust at the prosecutors and judge, who conceded grudgingly that he had "won almost every point" in the trial's first days. Points for Petiot...
...Maryland Democrat thrust at Ickes with the point that he had never mentioned the "rawest proposition" either to Franklin Roosevelt or President Truman. A sample exchange...
...John Boettiger strode into the newsroom of the Phoenix Republic and Gazette, thrust a handout at a reporter. It said that Anna and he would "gradually" develop the newsless shoppers' weekly into a daily paper. It did not say (or need to) that John and Anna hope to break the Republic and Gazette's profitable monopoly. The Republic called itself the Republican until 1930, still talks like one; the Gazette, under the same ownership, is only a little more polite to Democrats. The New Dealing Boettigers obviously hoped to capitalize on one fact of life in Arizona...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had two new titles-one that recalled the past, another that thrust him into the future. He was now Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and new Chief of the Imperial General Staff.* His job was to tailor Britain's Army to the shape of the atomic...