Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference, four hours after arrival, was the most pack-jammed of the convention. Henry Wallace had to be shoved through the crowd (only a third were newsmen). Sitting on a rickety table, with flash bulbs popping and microphones thrust at his face, Henry Wallace said stiffly, belligerently: "I am in this fight to the finish." What did he think of the President's feeble endorsement of him, which some of his own followers were calling a stab in the back? "The President did all I expected him to do. I told him that in justice to himself...
Part of the German tank forces had been beautifully feinted out of position by a preliminary thrust at Evrecy, southwest of Caen. Then the real blow was hurled east of Caen, as Allied tanks, vehicles, infantrymen moved forward. The battlefield was spectacular, wreathed in clouds of golden yellow dust, through which the sullen sun shone like a dull copper disc...
...Oliver Leese's Eighth Army there was still Florence, repository of Renaissance art, which the Germans had declared an open city. When they were captured, the Arno would cease to be a barrier. General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander would be ready to regroup his forces, and the ultimate thrust would get under...
...hour in which the German Army is waging a very hard struggle there has appeared in Germany a very small group, similar to that in Italy, that believed that it could thrust a dagger into our back as it did in 1918. . . . It is a very small clique of criminal elements, which will now be exterminated quite mercilessly...
...point close to Caen, British artillery poured 10,000 shells last week. But through the smoke that enveloped Caen British officers might still be able to pick out vestiges of the 1,000-year-old Romanesque towers and Gothic spires that once thrust up over the city. If so, they were probably the last men who would ever see them. For the architectural treasures of the city, which Henry Adams (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres) once called a "Romanesque Mecca," seemed doomed. Among them were...