Word: upthrust
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...primary election day last week the sun shone April-fresh on Philadelphia-clear and mild on the bright brass knockers and white Georgian lintels, on the upthrust fingers of factory chimneys above the staring ranks of grimy windows, on the ranked shabbiness of the miles of identical little houses, on the grey enormity of City Hall...