Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There have been many historic examples of "thrust-upon" greatness resulting in surprising current adulation and consequent "achievement" (in the sense of quantity, not quality, of action) which later mature evaluation does not substantiate. Three of our Presidents have been illustrious examples of such magnificent opportunism. They are Jefferson, Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt...
...whipped soldiers of the Wehrmacht in their grey-green uniforms were straggling back through the shattered cities. were all of a pattern. They walked fast and flatfootedly, their heads with their peaked caps thrust forward, balancing the packs on their backs. Seldom did they raise their eyes from the ground to see what guns and bombers had done. Some of the soldiers were hailed with cheers, flowers, kisses. Many a British U.S. soldier, dourly viewing these welcomes, felt that the German people were a little mixed up about...
...Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Southeast Asia commander, was now able to consider: 1) a move to cut off the Malay peninsula by a thrust through Moulmein to Bangkok; 2) a drive at southern Malaya and Singapore by way of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean...
...which Washington lends an attentive ear, has been best expressed by Under Secretary of State Joseph Clark Grew, who for ten years was U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo. He compares Japanese society to a hive, the Emperor to the queen bee. There comes a time when the queen is thrust out. The hive follows her to its new home. "It was not the queen which made the decision; yet, if one were to remove the queen from the swarm, the hive would disintegrate...
Anthony Eden, usually no great orator, outdid himself and brought his audience up cheering. When he spoke of peace machinery, he rotated his fists; when he spoke of war, he thrust them rigidly downward. His best (and final) lines: "In the last six terrible years, unnumbered men have died to give humanity another chance...