Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a technical question-and-answer session between reporters and a team of Ferraro's lawyers and accountants, the candidate arrived, got a last-minute briefing from her aides on the thrust of the queries, and sat down before the microphones, only to find that the sound system was not working. Ferraro retreated to a back room and paced, talking to no one as she waited for the most critical single political moment an American woman has ever faced. Not only was her vice-presidential candidacy in jeopardy, but so, in a fashion, was much that she portended for women...
...next two months, the critical thrust of both parties' Southern campaigns may be their respective registration efforts. No doubt the G.O.P. enterprise has in many places been able to benefit from racial fears and thus transform white nonvoters and Democrats into registered Republicans. In North Carolina (19% black electorate), says Elections Director Alex Brock, "Jesse Jackson began registration in the churches. But the Moral Majority picked up on it and may have surpassed him." In six months, G.O.P. registrations in rural Scotland County, N.C., increased from about 1,000 to almost 2,300. Lamarr Mooneyham, a Moral Majority official, says...
Television edits ruthlessly: cameras record every leap and thrust, but only one event at a time shows up in the living room. The gymnastics just ended; the sprinters are on; next is volleyball. That serial focus is misleading, TV's accommodation to our one-track minds. For the Olympics are happening all at once and all over the place. Only the epicenter is in Los Angeles. A slick L.A. cheer infuses the whole-banners the color of coral, the velodrome's playful curves-but not even the city's flabbergasting sprawl could encompass this Olympics' venues...
...said the thrust would remain the same. "Basically it's a course on the institutions of the criminal justice system--what the police do, for instance, or what the prosecutors do," he explained...
Heroes must be part of the answer. There are those like Jordan, Mary Decker, Carl Lewis who enter the Olympics with greatness already thrust upon them; one will test their performances against their reputations. Better still, sudden heroes always seem to emerge and establish themselves, often in sports one has dismissed as boring or has paid no attention to before. Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci created gymnastics for most Americans, not because Americans never heard of gymnastics, but because they had not seen the sport performed by virtuosos. A subtle surprise of the Olympics is how individuals can transform...