Word: thruster
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Laureate Masefield apologizes for not being an actual thruster, explains how a poet may open his casement on perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide countryside, every path, stile, gate and gap, as well as the workings of a fox's mind, one can hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been...
...include the period from 1927 (when Anglo-Soviet relations were broken off by the Baldwin Government in which Mr. Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer) up to last year, when the second MacDonald Government extended British recognition to Moscow for the second time. No apologist but a slasher, a thruster, Mr. Churchill wrote of the Soviet State in terms which, if accurate, would ipso facto justify attempts to destroy it by any means: "It is unnatural. It is a monster that has been born into our modern world. A cold reptilian blood flows in its veins. It possesses the science...