Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vital to maintaining control. Also fluttering to the ground was the fuselage of a single-engine Piper Cherokee Archer that had collided with the DC-9 on the virtually cloudless day. Trying to slow the dive of his 60-ton plane, Valdes threw its two engines into reverse thrust. The whine of the jets grew to an awful roar before the airliner smashed with a fiery explosion into a pleasant middle-class neighborhood of suburban Cerritos, where residents had been enjoying the Labor Day weekend...
...Paul Gray of M.I.T., Harvard's great scientific rival and neighbor on the Charles, twits Harvard for its emphasis on esoteric research. "M.I.T.," Gray says, "is more at ease with the real world." To which Paul Martin, dean of Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences, replies with a seigneurish thrust: "The kind of research done here is not on the one-to-three-year payoff plan. We can't rely on places like M.I.T. to represent this part of civilization...
...sardonic Tales from the Vienna Woods won him Germany's Kleist Prize. But Hitler's rise to power aborted Horvath's career, and his reputation has | re-emerged only since the late 1960s. Figaro imagines the principal characters of Beaumarchais's 18th century farce The Marriage of Figaro thrust into a postrevolutionary modern world. Count Almaviva is a tyrant on the run, his wife a conniving businesswoman, the valet Figaro a nationalist longing to return to his newly free homeland, and his lady's-maid wife Susanna a loyalist clinging to the old social order...
...prosperity, but there was nothing instant about his success in New York City's gritty garment district. He worked hard, sold hard and survived countless trials and errors. His early lack of strategic planning brought him close to bankruptcy in 1972. In the late 1970s, his Western Wear collection thrust Lauren into the fashion spotlight but failed financially...
...declared war or prior congressional approval. Kennedy demanded to know whether Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, who opposed the amendment, could personally guarantee that troops would not be sent. Lugar stated his personal opposition to deploying U.S. troops but declined to make any pledge. Asserted Lugar: "The thrust of our foreign policy is not to go to war. It is to try to bring about democracy." As the outgunned and outnumbered contras acknowledge, that will be a long and primarily military task...