Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tampico, Mexico, 5,000 aficionados sat stock-still one afternoon last week. In the centre of the ring, glistening in the sunlight, a wisp of a girl stood directly in the path of a charging bull, heels together, her sword poised ready for the kill. With one businesslike thrust over his horns and between the shoulder blades, the bull crumpled to the sand, shuddered, lay dead...
...time when every crackpot scheme had a chance, a little bloc of Western silver-State Senators, by vote-trading, logrolling, wheedling, threatening, thrust the 1934 Act down the unwilling throats of Messrs. Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau Jr. Only some 2 5 mining companies profit under the Act, and half of them are controlled by Eastern capital. The largest, Sunshine Mining Co., is owned by Pacific Coast Lumbermen; eleven have headquarters in New York City, one in Boston, one in the Midwest. Except for wages, most of the silver subsidy returns to the East...
...dawn was breaking, she raked us with her shell, But we put trust in the turbines' thrust and our faith in Captain Bell...
...November began the Japanese drive which the Chinese had been fearfully expecting for a full year-a thrust at the southwestern communications system, over which almost 90% of China's war supplies had been moving. This campaign was a sharp turning point...
...Fridays over Manhattan's WOR for New York Philco dealers. First time up, Inside Stuffer Williams aired the "plan Gamelin," under which "the major amphitheatre of war is to be far removed from the Western Front." He masterminded a possible Italian tie-up with the Allies, with a thrust at the Russian oil fields at Baku by Weygand's French, British and possibly Turkish Army, from Syria. Quick action was being urged, said he. because "the present situation in the unpredictable Balkans, and particularly in Rumania, will permit no delay." By Wednesday night, he could see this campaign...