Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rebels, irked at his administration, entered the presidential palace by stealth and kidnaped him. Slim-waisted, short-legged, he was no match at all for his captors. Before the alarm could be given he had been hustled off to Inquisition Square some blocks away. There a written resignation was thrust into his hand. He was ordered to sign on pain of death...
...echoed with the harsh scrape of steel, the clear ring of blade ion cup hilt. The enraged beauties engaged in no vapid stabbing of the air. Like most able dancers, they had long taken fencing lessons. Panting, with clenched teeth and tousled hair, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy skillfully thrust and parried until a well-timed lunge in tierce pinked the Winghardy shoulder...
...headsman that has been abolished-an antiquated relic deemed unworthy of modern, mechanistic Nationalist China. A Chinese execution is always something of a local holiday. The victim is allowed to drink his fill of rice wine until blissfully intoxicated. At the execution grounds, he kneels down, head thrust forward. Under the old regime it was the executioner's duty to take a two-handed, heavy-bladed sword, and from a comfortable stance remove the prisoner's head with one well-timed full swing. In the new order of things, prisoners' brains will be blown out by pressing...
...Wilderness City."Carved out of the wild, the city's growth was feeble at first. After being burned by the British in 1814, it made a fresh start, sprawled out of the bounds of the L'Enfant plan. Impatient at delays, President Jackson thrust his cane into the ground and said: "Here, right here let the corner stone of the Treasury Building be laid...
...edge. When the main wing reaches the stalling angle, the auxiliary flaps up and suddenly presents a new surface to the wind. The wind also rushes through the space between the auxiliary and main wings. The result is that the plane is simultaneously supported at its sharp angle and thrust toward a level keel. The plane does not! drop under conditions where standard ones would...