Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin reported a major break-through near Krivoi Rog by a Russian army of 500,000. Such a thrust would end the last German resistance within the Dnieper bend...
...more effort would clear the Russian land. To make this effort, the Red Command threw caution to the winds. The first snows of winter fell. But the Red armies thrust and spread out without regard for enemy counterattacks. Tanks and cavalry far outdistanced the infantrymen, probably relied on captured food and fuel. At moments, the fate of the entire offensive teetered in the balance. But there was power behind the Red Army's daring; power and daring...
...heretic by his Jewish brethren not because he believed that Jesus was the Messiah, but because he believed that He was the Son of God. And all through his life Paul never quite lost the feeling that, while he meant to reconcile the world to Jesus, he had actually "thrust a wedge between Israel and the world...
...eyeballs and caused an explosion inside his skull. He heard himself burst into long, savage screams, felt his bladder empty itself, his stomach throw up its contents over the table. There was lightning and thunder, the splitting of skin, the convulsions of choking from the grimy sponge they had thrust into his mouth to silence him." As he felt himself pass out, his thin, fading voice muttered: "I have nothing to confess...
...Thrust. The break-through was the reward of a bold and ingenious strategy, backed up by a mounting superiority in men and weapons. Last week, for the first time, came the detailed story of how the Red blueprint was translated into victory...