Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...enveloped Chinese broke through the envelopment. Their thrust was so wide, deep and strong that his inadequate reserves (grouped around the 1st Cavalry Division) could not check it. MacArthur's center was gone and the Reds lapped around the two inside flanks of his divided army, pushing both wings back toward...
Last week Hives put his hand to another new project. He reopened Rolls's huge Glasgow plant to mass-produce the new Avon jet engine (7,500-lb. thrust), successor to the Derwent and Nene (TIME, Oct. 16). The engines made there will go into the sleek Canberra twin-engine bomber, now being built in England for the R.A.F. and a bright possibility for the U.S. Air Force...
...Dawson, Ga. (pop. 4,670) knew that 29-year-old Erle Cocke Jr. had come out of World War II a major with a chestful of medals, that he had been stabbed by a Gestapo agent, shot twice and captured by the Germans three times, and had finally been thrust before a firing squad and left for dead...
...which a medical officer had forbidden them to eat because it was too heavy for half-starved men. "All Quiet." Corporal Edwin L. Piper of Company G, 2nd Battalion, who had kept snatches of a diary, told us the story of his week. Hard hit in the first enemy thrust, the remnants of his company had made two withdrawals, finally joined K Company of the 3rd Battalion on a hill where it had been trapped. Said Piper: "Company K had dug a square trench on the hill. The enemy made a new trench all around the square, and worked...
Although the Crimson dominated the first period play, the score was tied ten minutes later when a Harvard defender repulsed a Green quick-break thrust a little too energetically, incurring a penalty...