Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather, worse terrain, water-bound flanks and skillful enemy delaying tactics had decelerated what first promised to be a climactic thrust up the Italian boot. It was also evident that the Allies intended to push no costly drive up to the Brenner gateway to Germany. The forces to battle through were needed in other theaters...
...narrow road that winds toward the coastal town of Ortona in eastern Italy, a Canadian division was in its fiercest fight. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had secretly switched his Canadians out of the Apennines to make them part of the spearhead he thrust towards the key Adriatic port of Pescara. For the first time since Sicily, the Canadians were being regularly mentioned in Allied communiqués. Those fighting on an eight-mile front were battlewise veterans of Sicily. They had been with the Eighth Army in its 500-mile march across the heel and up Italy...
...through it again. Japs got close enough to be smelled. Within 50 feet of one U.S. foxhole, 16 grenades fell. Once Sergeant Azine, dozing, was unintentionally kicked by a buddy; he snapped awake, grabbed his fellow Corpsman by the throat, had his trench knife poised for a thrust before he realized...
...Algiers Thrust. From the Liberation Committee last week came a Fourth Republic blueprint. Presumably by agreement with the Allied High Command, the Gaullists first plan local, mid-invasion elections wherever the military campaign permits. To the President of a Provisional Assembly, chosen at these elections, De Gaulle and the Committee would proffer their resignations, resume office only by consent of the Assembly. Next, a new constitution would provide for general elections at war's end. The final, hoped-for result: a permanent, stable French government...
...hold services on Saturday - the Jewish Sabbath). He lets men and women sit together, does not require them to sit facing east. He baits them in his sermons, to make them think. "My job," he says, "isn't just to use a vocabulary. I have to get a thrust in now & then. Religion can't be taught. It has to be caught. And it must be caught from someone who is on fire...