Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Growing desperate about the mob clamoring about the list with pencils out-thrust, one Freshman merely left a note...
...able to maintain only "the core of the program." Varsity tennis will be untouched "because of the benefit from the intercollegiate program," and Freshman tennis will be kept "because it is an integral part of the hygiene program, and because if it were discontinued several hundred men would be thrust into other sports, already very crowded...
...more cultured the races of the earth have become," wrote Read in Childbirth without Fear (Harper; $2.75), "so much the more dogmatic they have been in pronouncing childbirth to be a painful and dangerous ordeal." But fear inhibits the muscles which open the womb and thrust out the child, causing pain and compounding the fear into further suffering. He claims to have made childbirth a pleasure for many women by 1) starting to dispel their fears and ignorance soon after they become pregnant, 2) teaching them in advance how to relax and make the child come easily, 3) giving them...
...onetime vice-chancellor of Belfast University, Sir Richard at 65 is a man with a straggly mustache, pink complexion and owlish eyes peering over gold-rimmed spectacles. Livingstone stalks across the Oxford quadrangles, mortarboard jammed squarely on his thinning hair, his black M.A. gown flowing, his chin thrust well forward...
Most remarkable feature of Till the End of Time: the difficult neuroses-threatened male lead, which might well have frightened a veteran actor, was thrust on a blond, dark-browed, sensationally handsome young man whose entire previous acting experience consisted of one movie bit part. Guy Madison, 24, ex-telephone lineman, was allowed a seven-day leave from the Navy in 1944 to speak a few lines in a David O. Selznick production. The volume of ecstatic bobby-sox fan mail (some 62,000 letters, many addressed simply to The Cute Sailor in Since You Went Away) was staggering...