Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombed) when the attacking ships retired. Not a plane was lost, not a rating injured, the British reported, in an action with a dual purpose: 1) to cripple Axis bases from which attacks can be launched on British convoys; 2) to smash one spearhead of a momentarily expected Axis thrust toward Suez and the oil fields of the Caucasus and Iraq...
...From previously captured bases in the Bismarck Archipelago. Japanese bombers and cannonading fighters struck again & again at New Guinea's Port Moresby. Wary of anti-aircraft fire, they stayed high, did little damage. U.S. and Australian bombers knocked out 13 Jap troop and supply ships attempting a seaborne thrust at Port Moresby and its hill-ringed harbor. The R.A.A.F. and long-range U.S. bombers hammered the airdrome at Gasmata, Jap-occupied town on New Britain's southern coast, swept northeast to Rabaul to catch grounded Jap bombers with at least one direct hit. Jap bombers left their bloody...
...Germans hate to be caught off guard by a sudden offensive thrust at an unexpected point. It confuses them and upsets their own carefully laid plans. Last week the British surprised them outside Paris, and they bawled their displeasure to high heaven...
Britain, fearing an imminent Japanese thrust to cut India's sea communications, was evacuating non-essential civilians from the strategic island of Ceylon Friday but on the other fronts of the vast Far Eastern war zone, the United Nations appeared, for the moment at least, to be holding their...
Rottjer's long arm reached out firmly, cut and thrust. Damonte parried, thrust savagely. Before the first two-minute bout was over, blood flowed from both men's forearms...