Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into this Typical American Home are thrust four Russian expatriates: 1) a White Russian playboy, sweetheart of the debutante, 2) a young Russian female, whose designs on the playboy have been realized several times, 3) an older Russian female, 4) a still older Russian female. There are The Disrupters (though, after all, sweet and lovable people) of The Typical American Home...
...What portents lay in the massive bombing of northern France? Was this prelude to a thrust across the Channel, the second front the Russians wanted...
...into Sicily's second city, the biggest city yet taken by a British army in World War II. Bomb-weary, hungry Sicilians stepped from the ruins, with cheers of relief, and cries for bread. For General Montgomery, it was another famous victory. From Catania and Paterno the Eighth thrust columns up the west and east slopes of Mt. Etna for the cleanup in Sicily...
...savage, costly attack; 17 Allied planes did not return. It proved, as the July 4 Commando raid on the island had proved, that Crete is formidable. But the island will have to be reduced before any Allied thrust is made toward the Balkans. Now, perhaps, the preliminary softening-up is under...
...saying, stocky Carl Elbridge Newton last week left his job as president of the bustling, kitten-conscious Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, thrust his feet under a Washington desk, and got set for a tough summer and a hard winter as operator of the Government-seized coal mines...