Word: thrusts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...warned Britain's Dr. Annis Gillie, should stand up for any work that she can do sitting down. Kitchen tables, counters and sinks are too low for many women, she complained : they have to stoop, which strains the spine and causes low back pain, and they have to thrust the head forward, which often inflames the neck muscles...
...demand for a thorough Defense Department shake-up (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week, despite an eloquent presidential appeal, the Marine Corps League had gone right ahead to pass a thundering censure of Louis Johnson (see above) and a demand for his resignation. But it had voted down a similar thrust at Dean Acheson...
...island's backbone is formed by two north-south mountain ranges which thrust up 16 peaks of 10,000 feet or more. On the east coast, the mountains become sheer rock walls, dropping 1,500 to 7,000 feet into the sea. On the west they fall away in successive terraces down to a wide coastal plain, thereby giving the island its Chinese name: Taiwan (Terraced...
Finally, General Kim stopped bowling. Instead of trying to take the road headon, he tried to cut it off by an enveloping thrust. Kim sent his 8th Regiment through a hole in the South Korean line on Michaelis' right flank...
...deserted the chicken farm (The Egg and I), but before she came down with TB (The Plague and I), she went to live in Seattle at her widowed mother's house. There her bossy big sister Mary, a live-wire private secretary with a city full of contacts, thrust her into the hands of one employer after another, including "a rabbit grower, a lawyer, a credit bureau, a purse seiner, a florist, a public stenographer, a dentist, a laboratory of clinical medicine and a gangster...