Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States Military Academy at West Point. I make this appeal in behalf of this youth as a token of the Nation's appreciation of the heroic services of his father, who met death in line of duty at the very outset of the struggle which was thrust upon us by the perfidy of a professed friend...
Last week St. Paul's staffers were busy designing ''thrust arrows" to indicate on their globes the direction of U.S. or Japanese drives, following the news as fast as it appeared. They were also busy on a supplementary map & chart series to show the potential range of "suicide-squad" bombers. Until the Japanese crisis they had never considered the range of planes sent to die with their victims...
...flag officers to take the senior job afloat in the U.S. Navy. It was a strange commentary on the memories of civilians and Navymen alike that after Port Arthur* this blow should have come as a surprise. Long before Hitler, the Japanese Navy had shown what the swift thrust, before declaration of war, could...
Hourglass. To the public observer, nothing startlingly new had developed. Premier Hideki To jo had made a violent and militant speech. Japanese troop transports, supposedly 70 strong, were supposedly still pouring fresh Japanese divisions into French Indo-China, for a possible thrust into Thailand and at the Burma Road, last artery of aid to China (see p. 27). But the Dutch were mobilized to the spit-&-polish point in Batavia; not only Singapore but all of the Straits Settlements were in a state of emergency; at Hong Kong every British soldier was at war post; U.S. Marines arrived at Olongapo...
Details of the raid and what it accomplished were withheld, but Germany grudgingly conceded a British thrust into occupied territory and said coldly that the attacking forces were repelled with heavy losses. Britain's Ministry of Information replied smugly that the raiding party returned intact with one lone casualty-a man shot in the arm. The Commandos-small, hardened, specially trained shock-invasion troops, who have raided enemy territory from Norway to Africa-had struck again successfully...