Word: thrustingly
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...suppose you will have many readers who will be nominating Eisenhower for Man of the Year. Please, please, TIME, do not be premature and thrust world greatness on him for this year; his job only begins next January...
...long spiked lances stabbed out, turning the frothy water crimson with blood. In its death throes, a whale rammed the boat containing three generations of Higdons. It smashed three planks below the water line, but the skiff stayed in the drive. Ashore, 12-year-old Charlie Williams thrust a lance into a beached whale. The din was terrible: clanking tin cans, shouts from fishermen, screams from women on the beach and a frantic pounding of whale tails on water. Blubber for the Plant. Examining the carcasses, the fishermen found that they had set a season's record...
...spinning faster, takes over and crams the air into the combustion chambers at much higher pressure (up to twelve to one) than could be reached by a single compressor alone. The result is to increase the power of the engine and to reduce its fuel consumption per Ib. of thrust by as much...
Another over-riding necessity is that of training, says Hopper. He feels that "America has not yet the personnel trained to the world-size job thrust upon the country." But he believes that the Republicans will partly remedy this by "relying more and more on professional diplomatic and military strategists, and less and less on intellectual amateurs, academic or otherwise...
Loder, the cynic, and St. John, the rake, crisply thrust and parry with verbal rapiers, while Miss Best as a dowdy but direct matron blunts them both. The frame-work for all this wordplay is Loder's visit to his divorced wife (Brenda Forbes); St. John broke up the marriage five years before and is still hanging around. Miss Best, a relative from Liverpool named Jane, adds her bit to the general tension by entering and announcing her engagement to a man half...