Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sporting a 5 to 0 lead at the end of two periods, the Yardling hockey team survived a strong Hebron. Academy thrust in the third stanza to account for its thirteenth victory, 6 to 4, yesterday evening at the Boston Skating Club...
...usually fired only in the morning when, with the sun directly behind it, gun flashes were hard to detect. Aerial superiority enabled Japanese dive-bombers to return again & again over U.S. positions, in spite of withering anti-aircraft fire. In the lull that followed the latest unsuccessful thrust against MacArthur, Japanese troops took uncontested possession of Masbate Island, in the middle archipelago south of Luzon, which has an excellent airfield less than 300 miles from Bataan...
Like a wave running up a beach, the sweeping force of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's thrust toward Tobruk had by last week slowed, thinned, sunk into the sand. What worried the British was how far the next wave might...
...comparative quiet, a warning voice was heard from Cairo. Able War Correspondent Alan Moorhead cabled to the London Express six cogent reasons why the Axis counterattack had succeeded, why the previous British thrust had stalled. They were...
...Forward thrust, engineers formerly thought, would also be increased, since the second screw would bite into an already moving air stream. But wind-tunnel research at Stanford has shown only a disappointing 2½% increase in thrust efficiency at low speeds, an actual loss of efficiency at higher speeds...