Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years between the two armistices France made a national shrine of that spot in the Forest of Compiègne. Trees were felled, the clearing carpeted with soft grass. A monument was erected-a sword thrust into a limp German eagle-and on the base of the monument was chiseled this inscription: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine. At the spot where the car had stood a great granite block bore the words: Here on the Eleventh of November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished...
...sooner had he assumed office than the President thrust down the throat of Congress a railroad reorganization bill, taking control of the railways out of workers' hands and putting it into the hands of the Government...
ASCAP and BMI thrust themselves directly into local affairs Friday night when their feud forced the Harvard band to revise its schedule and resort to Stephen Foster instead of Harvardiana...
Perhaps Supreme Warlord Hitler in tended to use his Balkan Army for a thrust into Greece whose Army was still pushing at the Italians last week, or at least as a diversion to pull away British forces pounding the Italians in Libya. Perhaps it was to be used against Turkey or as insurance against Soviet ambitions during an all out battle in the West. Supreme Warlord Hitler gave no indication, and suspension of all except official communications from Rumania left the whereabouts of the major body of his troops unknown...
...eastern wing of the southern war theatre. Somewhere below Khartoum was wizened little Emperor Haile Selassie, sending word to tribesmen in the fastnesses of captive Ethiopia that the day of liberation, castration and feasting was at hand. The British had no major force to spare for a strong thrust at the 100,000 Italians cut off from home in Ethiopia, but at Gallabat, Kassala and down in Italian Somaliland they delivered jabs and jolts. In a swift raid they seized El Wak, across Kenya's east border, took 120 prisoners, seized or burned important Italian supplies...