Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Griswold's first thrust was swift. While his fast-moving troops headed east, he dispatched his bombers, "smashed" every bridge across the Pee Dee. The Blues crossed anyhow. A cavalry outfit swam the Pee Dee. Others crossed by pontoons flung across the stream and by the bridges themselves, which became usable again after "repairs...
...vitally important that America's internal stresses be minimized. Undemocratic social patterns must not be thrust upon young men just rising above the bigotism of their parents what little ground has been gained must be kept. It is nonsense to refuse a man the right to make a shell or shoot a cannon because of his color when the very weapon is aimed at the same sort of in tolerance abroad...
...there were shouts of glee and a gnashing of teeth when the lots were drawn and football seats were parcelled out in September. Probably the loudest gnashing came from the Seniors in Lowell House, who for three years had wormed their way slowly towards mid-field, only to be thrust rudely back to the 20-yard line in their last year. Behind this disruption was a decision by the H. A. A. to experiment with an undergraduate suggestion that seats be proportioned by Houses rather than by classes...
This tough talk was underlined by the House of Representatives' approval of a 3,800,000,000 yen ($874,000,000) extraordinary military budget. Thus Japan's Tojo, Togo and Diet had thrust the Empire into a warlike posture which, if it were to be abandoned for any reason, would require a fearful loss of face and alibis which would have to be masterpieces of Japanese verbalism. The Japanese were still fooling themselves into believing that the U.S. could be made to back down...
...blackest day in U.S. airline history came with a great mass of cold air from the Arctic. It thrust a freezing finger as far south as the Texas panhandle, rested its chilly knuckles on the Great Lakes, spumed in ice, rain and mist where its skin touched warmer...