Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After nearly ten years of displaying objects pickled in alcohol and acting out the "Trial of Booze" on high school platforms, the W.C.T.U. and its associates have at last found the opportunity to play their favorite game. These seasoned lobbyists have put away, their scientific experiments and thrust themselves into the less chaste forum of the United States Senate, where they have secured an anti-booze amendment to the 18 and 19-year-old draft bill. All the local chapters have been buzzing with expectation and plans since the first soldier went to camp in October 1940. This amendment...
...they could be removed from the gas area." His emergency solution was to set the women stitching together sacks which, when impregnated with gas-resistant chemicals, could be drawn over infants' heads and tied tightly at the bottom. But how would a child like to have his head thrust into a sack...
Lowell had threatened in the first period, when, paced by Dick Sorlein, it drove to the Lowell 15-yard line, but the Business withstood the thrust. From there on, it was all Leverett
Queried as to the probability of a Japanese invasion in the near future, Runganadhan said that the Indians expect an enemy thrust as soon as the present monsoon season is over, but he expressed his doubts as to the ability of the Japanese to launch an invasion at any time...
...coast between Dakar and the Mediterranean. Every move up that coast would be a move to: 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...