Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists, Roman Catholic priests hastened to point out that nowhere in the Mass are there specific prayers for Russia or for Stalin. What every Catholic priest recites are prayers "for the [Roman Catholic] Church in Russia" (prescribed by Pope Pius XI in 1934), including a petition that God may "thrust down to hell Satan and all wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls...
...initiative would not be theirs. When the Allies came, they would almost certainly land at many points, almost certainly make a selection later of the softest spots to develop their thrust inland. Some of the German troops would fight it out on the shore...
...fighter plane with teeth that work-suggested by the sharks' teeth painted on the Flying Tigers' P-4OS. The plane has a retractable sawtooth bar which can be thrust out below the wings to cut an enemy plane to pieces. One of its two inventors is Brigadier General Robert Kauch of the Army Air Forces...
...House of Commons last week, Winston Churchill parried a thrust at his close association with Publisher Lord Beaverbrook (TIME, April 10). Socialistic Sir Richard Acland, Common Wealth Party leader, sharply asked if the rule which bars Cabinet Ministers from engaging in journalism had been suspended to favor the brash, busy Beaver and his London Daily Express. Said Churchill: "The proprietorship of newspapers has never been held to be journalism in the ordinary sense...
...Fairy Tale. Elizabeth was only a few minutes old when a black-coated, stripe-trousered symbol of British officialdom thrust itself upon her. On April 21, 1926, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks peered anxiously into her red, squally face, went away to affirm that she had been born. Her life, not exactly woeful, has been like that ever since...