Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of the town, they overturned a small commercial van and caused damage of serious consequence to the business of its owner-driver, who was in it at the time. They also uprooted a traffic beacon and thrust it through the glass door of a shop. Near Christ's Lane, a car was seized and attempts were made to overturn it. The occupants, an old lady and gentleman, were severely shaken and the lady collapsed...
...differences with Churchill were continuous and lasted until the end of the war. At first they arose over Churchill's coolness toward the cross-Channel invasion. Eisenhower, in fact, said that Churchill feared the bloodletting of a direct thrust at the Germans. Almost up to D-day itself, and while all plans for it had long since been put in motion, the Prime Minister plumped for an all-out attack against the "soft underbelly" of Europe (Italy, the Balkans, southern France). In this contest Ike proved just as stubborn as Churchill, and won every exchange...
Then Harry Truman rode in glory through the thunder of applause to the White House.* From the north portico, he told the cheering crowd: "It is overwhelming. It makes a man study and wonder whether he is worthy of the confidence, worthy of the responsibility which has been thrust upon...
...statute can be made to represent the consensus of responsible labor and management leaders. The Railway Labor Act of 1926 was such a consensus. In the present state of collective bargaining the new statute need not be thrust down the threat of labor or management. The time has passed for more "get even" laws. Management's lessons from the Wagner Act and labor's from the Taft-Hartley act have created an awareness to the rights of the other party and a greater sense of public responsibility. There are signs that the administration intends to follow the course of consulting...
...military implications of the Manchurian disaster were also serious. After mopping up around Mukden, handsome Communist Commander General Lin Piao, once Chiang Kai-shek's star student at the Whampoa Military Academy, will be able to mass some 250,000 Red troops for a southward thrust at Peiping and General Fu Tso-yi's North China corridor. Unless Fu can get substantial reinforcements, the fall of North China will be merely a question of Communist convenience...