Word: thrustingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that time most of the camp's 750 Hungarians were crowding close, shaking fists and screaming obscenities at the two cowering Communists inside the sedan. Hands thrust up a crude red banner. In German it proclaimed: "Pfui to Communist Bloodhounds." Below was a roughly inked figure dangling from gallows: "Kadar." "How much did you get from the Russians?" roared one young man. "You come here to smile but at home you are killing the people," spat an old woman. "We don't want to see our children's hangmen," yelled another...
...warm sunshine, as a swarm of Russian-built MIGs circled overhead, an American-piloted Convair dropped down on Cairo's airport. Erupting from its interior came six fierce-looking bodyguards, their gold daggers glinting beside shiny machine pistols thrust in their black bandoleers. Twenty-one guns boomed ceremonially as a tall, majestically robed Arab King stepped down from the plane, silver-rimmed spectacles gleaming beneath his flowing, gold-banded headdress. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, an Arab in a business suit, stepped forward, and kissed him on both cheeks...
...into being. He does not regret feeling as he did in the '305, when the landscape was dominated by bitterness and suffering and appalling inequalities. And after the war, as Minister of Housing, he believes he did not act like a man who was having public housing thrust upon...
Launching rocket-propelled missiles from a submerged submarine is not a new idea (TIME. May 22, 1950). Rockets deliver the same kind of thrust under water that they do in air or a vacuum, so they can start their journeys from a considerable distance below the surface of the ocean. Small rockets were actually fired 13 years ago from the deck of a submerged German submarine by rocketeers under Dr. Wernher von Braun, who now heads the Redstone group...
...swords of conspirators. Bloody feuds had broken out, and Pizarro's murderers saw themselves as avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster. There were twenty against Pizarro and blows rained upon him. His arm weakened. A final thrust, and the Marquis crumpled, his throat cut. He cried out his confession and then, unable to speak more, dipped a hand in his own blood and traced a great cross on the floor ..." A contemporary chronicler wrote: "Afterward he was poorly buried. All his grandeur and all his riches vanished...