Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story. As we discussed the changes, my mind began to transmogrify. His familiar visage took on the horrible features of Tezcatlipoca, Mexico's evil magician-god with blazing eyes and slobbering tongue. If one encounters this dreadful apparition, legend has it, one's only hope is to thrust a hand into the god's bloody chest cavity and seize its palpitating heart...
...flight had to be aborted shortly after lift-off. What would happen, asked NASA analysts, if one or more of the valves that allow the liquid fuels to flow from the external tank into the orbiter's main engines failed to shut after the tank was jettisoned? The thrust from leaking fuel, they feared, could cause the orbiter and tank to collide. Since the shuttle's computer is not programmed to identify which valves have failed, the astronauts would not know how to maneuver their craft out of danger. In the end, officials decided not to reprogram the computer...
Since a large number of Cambridge residents work for the University, city officials occasionally thrust themselves into Harvard's internal labor disputes. This spring, the City Council became involved in the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers' (HUCTW) fight to unionize the University's support staff. The Council passed a resolution in March that supported the would-be union and urged the University not to conduct a campaign against HUCTW...
...Meese makes a lovely target. Broad and a bit blubbery, trusting and more than a shade bumbling, the Attorney General is planted firmly atop the disintegrating ramparts of the Reagan Administration. He is the last centurion of the far right who stands out there, his banner still thrust high...
...other "winner" of the election, with a surprising 14.5% of the vote in the first round, declared full and outright opposition. Le Pen, who on election night pugnaciously called the rest of the political right "suicidal" and the "dumbest in the world" for refusing a pact with him, thrust himself forward as leader of the "national, popular opposition" and the "only real alternative to Socialist power...