Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daily, they crowded his backyard, filled with wires attached to the cosmic rectifier. Some held the wires in their hands, others put them between their teeth to get better contact. After treatment, some thrust cosmic wires into jugs of water, thus manufacturing free medicine to take home. The crowds swelled...
...Marine Lieut. William Harris, veteran of Corregidor was battered for half an hour with a baseball bat. He lived, but others, after similar treatment, died. There were also more refined methods: metal bits were fastened into soldiers' mouths with thread which gradually drew tighter & tighter;match slivers were thrust under men's fingernails, and jagged ends of bamboo twisted against their faces...
...joyous humanity engulfed him. The people jammed the streets on each side of his Cadillac sedan. They crawled through police lines, hung from balconies, yelled from rooftops, held their children high to see the sight. Slowly the Generalissimo, now smiling happily, passed through the wave of jubilation. Hands were thrust in victory salutes as the people shouted: "Chiang . . . Chung kuo . . . wan sui . . . wan wan sui!-Chiang . . . China . . . live ten thousand years . . . live ten thousand ten thousand years...
...Soviet attack was many-pronged. From Manchouli on the west, armored spearheads tipped by armored trains thrust eastward along the Chinese Eastern Railway toward Harbin, making gains up to 50 miles a day. On the north, the Amur River was crossed in two parallel pushes. From the Vladivostok panhandle, two more drives were launched, one westward along the railway to nip Harbin in a giant pincers, the other southward into Korea, where the port of Rashin was captured...
Lightning Thrust. Potentially, the bomb not only raised the middle and small powers much nearer to the U.S. level; it also restored to warfare "the lightning thrust" by which a smaller power might knock out a greater. The atomic bomb put a new premium on aggression (surprise) and even on chance...