Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warlords grudgingly permitted Chiang Kai-shek to establish his national capital at Chungking in their Province. Chungking's first big bombing in May 1939 gave Chiang an excuse to establish control of that city and eastern Szechwan. Gradually he brought his own armies into the Province, thrust his appointees into provincial posts. He forced the warlords to send troops to the front, while his own men cracked down on opium bootlegging, main source of the corrupt warlords' revenue. By last year Chiang was so firmly in control that he could install as Governor his own man, stocky General...
...airplanes on the ground, looked terrible. Tailless as a Manx cat, it squatted on a three-wheeled undercarriage. Its wing tips (span 38 feet) drooped forlornly. Two pusher propellers poked out of its rump like something an insane designer had tacked on as an afterthought. From its blunt beak thrust a long rod carrying the head of its airspeed indicator. It looked like a ruptured, weather-racked duck, too fatigued to tuck in its wings...
Meanwhile, Dunster and Lowell were going at it, tooth and nall, with the Bell Boys again staging a last-second thrust to carry them to victory. With three minutes of play remaining, the Lowell backfield swung into action...
Bluff Ben Lear took a characteristically vigorous course. At the jump-off he bridged the Red River, skillfully moved his 125,000 men across, charged deep into the heart of the Blues. Spearhead of his thrust was the Armored Force. It bit deep into the Blue middle, then dropped out of sight, let the Blues worry about where it would appear next...
They wasted their worry. After two days the Red tanks turned up again, right where they were last seen. They had been in a successfully camouflaged bivouac, waiting to make the final thrust into the Blues' vitals. But by then it was too late. Its avenues of attack canalized by a water-broken country, the Armored Force ran into traps, anti-tank posts. It was theoretically smashed by Major General Herbert A. Dargue's supporting Blue air force, which was used more skillfully than a U.S. air force had ever been used before in maneuver...