Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whispered occasionally to his colleagues. With his name, his smile, his war record and his apparent political charm, he had a potential political future that no other American of his age could match. His own major problem, it now seemed, would be how to deserve all that might be thrust...
...Liberals had any fears that Drew's campaigning would have a similar effect on them, they failed to show it. The only thrust that seemed to worry them was the argument being used against St. Laurent in his home province of Quebec. Tory campaigners charged that St. Laurent was centralizing power in Ottawa, and thus undermining the autonomy of the predominantly French and Roman Catholic province. In driving home this point, the Tories got help from Liberal-hating independent candidates like Montreal's elephantine Mayor Camillien Houde. Said Houde: "Better for us to have in Ottawa a Protestant...
Japan is moving toward democracy and China toward Communism. Thrust out into the sea between them lies Korea, which is moving in both directions. Last week President Truman asked Congress for $150 million of ECAid to keep South Korea stable after U.S. occupation forces complete their withdrawal in a few weeks. If South Korea falters, Communist North Korea will gobble it, and that, in turn, would encourage anti-democratic forces from Japan around to India...
...mustached, kewpie-like face thrust aggressively forward, Gus Hall (real name Arno Gust Halberg), chairman of the Ohio Communist Party, sneered: "It sounds more like a kangaroo court than a court of the United States. I have heard more law and more constitutional law in kangaroo courts." Judge Medina ordered him to jail...
...This is a conference of worried men. From back-street boarding houses to the big, red brick Cliffs Hotel on the upper-class north shore, there's a sense of disquiet, restiveness, uncertainty. Gone are the days when delegates huddled in eager groups in cafes and lounges, heads thrust forward in lively argument, eyes shining in anticipation of a great crusade. Gone are the more recent days when, flushed with new power, they sank into easy chairs and sprawled in happy discussion, secure in the knowledge that an order to their parliamentary steamroller would change the face of Britain...