Word: thrusting
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...port of a long shakedown cruise to Suva, Sydney, Rabaul, Nouméa, etc. Coming on deck that morning I heard the engine roar of one of the biplanes she carried, and as I stepped over the hatch coaming I saw the plane just beginning to lift from the thrust of the catapult. Almost immediately, from an elevation of, perhaps, two hundred feet, she fell into the bay. Thus ended man's first brief flight in Samoa...
...ninth month slid into the past, the Leftists hastily mobilized peasants and city workers to push the fierce drive few miles to the northwest of Teruel, General Franco's powerful garrison in eastern Spain, 150 miles from Madrid. Again and again the Leftists, backed by war planes, thrust forward in an effort to weaken General Franco's hold in that critical sector lest he succeed in wrecking their communications between Valencia and Barcelona...
...Final thrust was a Supreme Court scene, with 15 Justices resembling Caspar Milquetoast chorusing...
...blank-loaded pistol and a steel-bolted chair in his left hand and a whip in his right jumped into the cage, slapped the gate shut behind, pranced, crouched, cracked his whip. A lion made a tentative lunge at him. The pistol barked, the chair legs blocked the thrust of the paw, and the beast took his place. More cats ran in-a batch of lions, a batch of tigers, a batch of lions-keeping their heads and shoulders low to avoid cuffs from the others. Crack, Crack! Crack ! The whiplash exploded like a bunch of firecrackers until...
...bevy of his charges change pedestals. He fought off a lion that seemed to have pinned him against the bars. Every now and then a lion took a swipe at a tiger-or vice versa. Then the whiplash flicked over. The trainer swaggered up to a pedestaled tiger, thrust the chair at its open jaws. The animal knocked the chair aside. Soon the same tiger was obediently rolling itself along on top of a large cylinder. The trainer next made a lion sit up with its paws upraised like a begging dog's. Finally he made a tiger whirl...