Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certainly intend to plow into his inner defenses. Except for his German counterpart, no leader had the impossible alternatives that lay before Shimada. He could come out and fight, hurl his whole force against the U.S. fleet. The result would be destruction. Or he could stand on his one thrust at the enemy and keep his fleet in being, a threat that might never be used but that would have to be reckoned with. Or he could spend his fleet piecemeal in harassing action, postponing the day of defeat. His choice was between bad, worse and worst...
...bare of motorized equipment, pitifully short of supplies, which still had to come by air over the Hump from India. Last week, south of the China theater in Burma, American, British and Chinese troops moved almost imperceptibly closer to regaining the ground over which a supply road could be thrust into China...
They got their chance; the 82nd was too spent to exploit its breakthrough. So while one regiment of the 9th pushed west from Néhou, through St.-Jacques, another regiment passed the tired 82nd, pushed through St.-Sauveur in a parallel thrust. The enemy's 77th Division put up a bitter rear-guard fight, was savagely cut up and broken; those who could, escaped -but the wrong way, to the north...
...tell the attackers that the fight was over? The paratroopers hung their own shirts from the windows for recognition signals. The firing only grew heavier. They yelled to cut it out, but their friends could not hear. Then a U.S. paratrooper found a bullet-pierced German bugle. He thrust it out the window. Above the firing rang the shrill familiar notes of "chow call...
...rearward thrust of high-speed gases drives the vehicle forward. This is in accord with Newton's law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction or recoil...