Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precise role of the Russians was difficult to define. It seemed impossible that Moscow, which has advisers throughout the Syrian army, was unaware of Damascus' intention to invade. The Russians may not have known the extent of the thrust, however, Moscow made every public pose of trying to check the fighting. Yet some U.S. analysts speculated that the Russians might have been playing a clever double role: instructing their advisers with the Syrian army to let the tanks roll, but to appear as the peace saver by pulling them back if they failed. It was not necessarily that the Soviets...
...back to the czarist days of Peter the Great, who coveted the warm water ports of the Mediterranean. Though the Kremlin has soft-pedaled the Communist imperative to spread the red flag wherever possible, such ideological expansion continues to affect Soviet conduct. The most important element in the Soviet thrust, as British Kremlinologist Victor Zorza notes, is that "the Soviets are a great power, and they want the facilities that go with great-power status." Those facilities include not only markets for Soviet industry and sources of raw materials, but also the fleets, bases, and other concrete symbols needed...
...some respects, the Arab states are only way stations in a grand cross-continental thrust aimed at the vast Indian Ocean. "The Russians are advancing south," Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan wrote last month in the Times of London. "If they were given to slogans they would declare: 'Red soldier, go South.' Their way is a succession of straits-the Dardanelles, Suez, Bab el Mandeb (linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden)-but it is a painless progression. No power blocks their...
...earth. The lower stage, a four-legged vehicle vaguely resembling the LM's descent stage, remained behind and continued to take temperature and radiation readings. What made the blast-off procedure so important was that Russian designers-probably because of severe weight restrictions made necessary by the limited thrust of their booster rocket-had apparently not built into the spacecraft any capability for mid-course corrections. Thus, had the returning spacecraft been on a course that brought it back into the earth's atmosphere at the wrong angle, the Russian controllers would not have been able to save...
Weather could be a factor today. If it rains, the Crimson passing attack could sag and then the offensive thrust would depend almost solely on the line's ability to forceably remove the Knights. Nothing negates speed and quickness more easily than...