Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness said he had seen the Odikro entering the late Sir Ofori's ahinfie. Another claimed that he had seen him offered a drink, then bludgeoned on the head from behind. A third had seen the Odikro, unconscious, tied in a chair with a long knife thrust between his jaws. The Odikro's blood trickled down the knife, dripped into a wooden bowl. A fourth said he had been handed the bowl of blood, ordered to paint Sir Ofori's stool with it. As the jurors could see, the stool had been painted. Fitted together, these bits...
Last week the mystery was solved. Short, earnest Allen Reasoner, 38, a Red Cross field director, sadly admitted that he was the unwitting offender. The role, he said, had been thrust upon him during a 36-hour leave in Paris in mid-September. In all innocence he had called on a Paris adman named Pierre Elvinger. To him, Reasoner delivered an apparently innocuous message which Reasoner had received in a letter from his brother-in-law J. David Danforth, an executive with Manhattan's high-powered advertising firm, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne Inc. The message: Elvinger was expected...
...master surgeon and scientific philosopher (Man the Unknown), 1912 Nobel Prize winner for suturing blood vessels and transplanting living organs, collaborator with Charles Lindbergh on the "mechanical heart''; of prolonged heart trouble; in France. Son of a Lyons silk merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious gourmet and longtime agnostic, he received...
Their central thrust, with a force built around five battleships, would rush the narrow San Bernardino Strait and strike Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet, guarding the Leyte beach head, on its northern flank...
...chamber, sets off an explosion which closes the jets and expels the expanding vapors from the rear end, giving the bomb a forward push. As the vapor escapes, air opens the jets again and the process is repeated, 45 times a second, to give the machine an almost continuous thrust...