Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anarchist thrust-though it can be destructively powerful-leads nowhere. Some rebels sensing this, will look around for a more constructive vision. When they look, there will be the bearded prophet with his peculiar mix of scientism and moral passion, his peculiar way of linking yesterday-today-tomorrow, his peculiar kind of oversimplification and exaggeration, his peculiar kind of hope...
These offenses are political in their origin and active thrust. They share in the special fury of political passion, which is, as Pasternak described it, like the fury and torment of adolescent love: "It tears one to shreds, and nothing save harm seems to come of it. At the same time one can not get free of it. And all who enter as people into history will always pass through...
...that two elderly French spinsters, Anai's Georget and Blanche Cardon, wrote those words in their diary. It was Dday, and along the coast of Normandy, under gray, blustery skies, 156,000 Allied troops were hurling themselves against Hitler's Festung Europa, launching a thrust that would conclude on the Elbe River eleven months later and bring World War II to an end. Anai's Georget and Blanche Cardon have long since died, but the memories and memorials of that day in 1944 have not. On the beaches, in the cliffs and dunes and marshes beyond them...
...aluminum 550-h.p. engine for the Corvette Sting Ray; with that power pack, the car costs about $9,000. Ford hopes to lure speedsters with a souped-up Mustang, called the "Boss 302." The auto is built with a wing across the rear deck to provide a downward thrust that adds traction to the wheels; it also has fixed louvres as bizarre sunshades on the rear window. The still more powerful "Boss 429" has a 375-h.p. engine that will whip the car from zero to 60 m.p.h. in less than six seconds. Even the Ford Fairlane, usually a sedate...
...Booster (so called because it has neither guidance equipment nor complicated fuel pumps and plumbing). A Nerva nuclear engine, which will be used only after a rocket has left the atmosphere, is being test-fired at Jackass Flats, Nev. When perfected, the engines could generate 75,000 Ibs. of thrust with half the fuel that a conventional rocket would...