Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whenever I tried to inform some self-named realist of our tremendous resources, he'd thrust out his bay window (substitute for brains) and ask for "statistics, little lady, statistics" - you know...
...That. To defend Syracuse against the Romans (215 B.C.), Archimedes contrived huge rock-throwing slings, long poles thrust from the city's walls to drop missiles on enemy heads, great cranes that hooked into the prows of the Roman ships and hoisted them into the air, "burning mirrors" with which (according to legend) he set the fleet afire. Plutarch reported that Archimedes so terrified the Romans that "if they did but see a little rope or a piece of wood from the city's walls . . . they turned their backs and fled." But they captured Syracuse...
...Tags, Two. The speaker thrust out a brown German field cap, its peak splashed with blood, its swastika and flying eagle half-covered with mud. "Due Tedeschi morti!" he repeated, then said in English: "We catch them coming to kill my pig. No pig for them-sons of bitch! See, we have what you call dog tags...
What makes the jet-propulsion plane fly is the extreme pressure built up within the mechanism by air compression and burning fuel. This pressure is exhausted to the rear through the jet opening, thus exerts a powerful forward reaction, or thrust, on the plane...
...Naples and the great airfields of Foggia. The General's implication: these, more than any other prize, put Anglo-American forces in position for a flank attack on southern France and/or the Balkan Adriatic coast. Presumably from Foggia's web of runways last week, Allied planes thrust an arm over Marshal Tito's troops, hammered the Nazi rail junction at Sofia and dromes near Athens...