Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Declared an embargo on the shipment of scrap iron & steel to Japan-another thrust in the Far East, another smash in the headlines...
...save this democracy of ours any other way. If you will charge me with that responsibility I will see to it that the pull is strong and is smooth." Next night, at Madison, Wis., his hearers were mostly students: an intelligent, restless, heckling, cheering audience. Willkie, apparently loving it, thrust-&-parried the hecklers, gradually rose to an oratorical form that astounded the correspondents, who were only now discovering that Willkie doesn't like to talk, he likes to argue. A hostile audience is meat-&-drink to him. It was Willkie's best performance on the trip...
...desert-wise Graziani a tortoise floundering in the shifting sands. He waited, strengthened his strung-out garrisons, brought up more water, dug new wells to replace those salted by the British in retiring. His object was to prepare Sidi Barráni as a base for his next thrust forward. As he did so, the British cracked at his vulnerable line of communication...
...desert, British and Italian tanks and armored cars scuttled in and out of the oases, "islands of the blessed," in the modern version of Lawrence of Arabia's strike-and-run stratagem with camel raiders. The British kept a lookout for an overland thrust southeast across the ancient caravan trails to Cairo or Khartoum. Having once accomplished the impossible, in forced marches and road building in Ethiopia, it was not inconceivable that Italy might pit her legions against both nature and the British, in a gamble to sever the British Empire's jugular...
Once having established himself on the St. Lawrence, an invader might pattern his advance by land on the thrust of gouty General Burgoyne down the Hudson in the Revolution. Mercilessly harried on his flanks as he moved south, luxury-loving Briton Burgoyne finally dug in near Saratoga, put his women in a safe place and tried to knock Gates's Army out of his way. Soundly defeated in one of the world's decisive battles (largely through the tactical resource of Gates's brilliant subordinate, Benedict Arnold) he had to hand over his sword. Thus ended...