Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night in Moscow 548 guns thundered an unprecedented salute to a great twin victory by two ex-peasants now be come marshals: 1) tank-expert Gregory Zhukov's drive to the old Czech border and 2) infantry-expert Ivan Konev's 40-mile thrust into Rumania. In spite of mud and flood-swollen rivers the Red Army was still on the march it began in December some 300 miles to the east...
...Parry & Thrust. In Parry Sound, Ont, Russian Philip Malar stabbed Austrian Ted Kamanarski with a butcher knife, explained to the police that his offense...
...Delhi wag suggested: "It looks like a swap. The Japanese will get India and the Allies will get Burma." But even if Stilwell should be cut off by the Japanese thrust at Imphal, it might be possible to supply him by air, although with great difficulty during the monsoon. Much worse would be the very serious reduction, if not elimination, of supplies for China over the Hump...
...Business. Palau, which lies more than 1,100 miles west of Truk, also lies nearly 1,100 miles northwest of General MacArthur's farthest outpost in the Admiralties. On this deep thrust into Japanese waters the Navy went with no light task force, but with a full-fledged battle fleet. Of the 50 carriers which Secretary Knox last week announced were in the Pacific, many took part. So did enough battleships to challenge the main Japanese fleet...
...Prime Minister was half through his pedestrian, almost defensive report to Britain and the U.S. last week. Suddenly, into an uninspired voice, crept the thrust and crackle of the fighting Churchill. In one by-election after another, ungrateful Britons had turned down Churchill candidates, criticized Churchill politics. He was angry. His anger burst, red-hot, out of thousands of British and U.S. loudspeakers...