Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suburbs. Suburban living does not solve city overcrowding. As cities thrust out their suburban arms, overcrowding, smoke and destruction of the landscape move with them...
Your reasons for this are important enough to recapitulate: 1) cut off Rommel's forces in their rear; 2) bar the Germans' way to complete conquest of North Africa; 3) restore Allied control of the western Mediterranean; 4) assist a thrust into Germany's southern Europe...
When Sumner Welles thrust a cool, straight blade at Argentina and Chile last fortnight for tolerating Axis spies (TIME, Oct. 19), he must have expected resentful parrying by the Governments of those countries...
...change the title of the picture to that of the song. Also rocketing to fame on the song's beer-barrel phrases was a hitherto obscure drummer named Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones. Jones, whose band, The City Slickers, first recorded Der Fuehrer's Face, found himself suddenly thrust up among the top U.S. bandleaders. Until then "Spike" had been modestly playing what he calls "society music" (jazzed up Chopin and Debussy) at Los Angeles' Jonathan Club. Now he is being fought over by several Hollywood studios, is already signed up for a Warner Brothers musical called Thank...
...land thrust--the second in as many days--was attempted Tuesday by a small force which against struck futilely at the American western flank...