Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the fate of the Russian landing party was in doubt, but even if the German claim that it had been liquidated was true, it had done a good job. The thrust may have headed off a dangerous German advance by throwing the Nazis off stride...
...fear of being flanked by another Jap cross-thrust, the British on the Irrawaddy River pulled back their lines toward Prome...
With a beachhead in the Germans' rear, the Russians plunged into their supply lines, slashing right & left. The Germans began to move troops back into rear areas to parry the thrust. They pecked at the landing party with Stukas, but the Russians had air power...
Farther south the German pockets held. So did the Russian spearheads, thrust deep into the German lines. Near Kalinin, northwest of Moscow, the Russians announced that they had finally beaten off a fierce five-day counterattack by crack German troops, had killed 2,400, knocked out 25 tanks...
...Sitting very straight, her breasts thrust out, Selma [Burgin] stared at Christina angrily. 'We're not playing a game,' she said, and Canby started at the passion in her voice. 'We're fighting the most powerful people in the world. . . . One just doesn't talk about party membership. I took it for granted you knew...