Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Starch. In Manhattan, a 24-year-old Negro confessed to holding up the laundry of Hyman Ostrow seven times since 1939, explained, "He was a soft touch." Happy Landings. In Cleveland, Restaurateur Joseph Sinjur tossed out a drunk, discovered too late that helpful customers had innocently thrust on the drunk a fallen wallet containing $200 - all Sinjur...
...Ligurian coast Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army thrust for the old naval-base town of La Spezia. Working a pincers, the 442nd Regiment (Japanese-Americans) and the 473rd Regiment (Negroes) cleared enemy defenses around the famed marble center of Carrara. Italian Partisan units swarmed out of caves and quarries to help the troops capture the village...
...Chinese High Command had warm words of praise last week for Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. It had helped slow the Japanese thrust into Shensi. But the General was in no mood to praise or be praised. He called in American and Chinese newspapermen to hear harsh news: thieves and gangsters in "both organized and unorganized bands" were hampering the operations of his air force...
...invaders, fleeing Germans were eating horse meat on the roads, but for those who stayed behind, even in the cavernous cities, food seemed sufficient. In heavily bombed Münster, restaurants served steaming Westphalian meals to all. In Osnabrück's intact suburbs, German civilians thrust food and schnapps on the invaders without thought of payment. Department-store shelves were crammed with linen, stockings, blankets, perfume, cameras. Cellars overflowed with fine French wines. British Commandos who took the town lived opulently on champagne, ham & eggs, ripe strawberries...
Island of Thought. Overriding every G.I. discovery was the phenomenon of the people: they had no conception of the degree to which they had been thrust beyond the pale of the human race. Under Nazi rule, Germany had become an island of thought completely segregated from the outside world...