Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision to award an honorary degree to Kollek, reported in last week's issue of the Jewish Advocate, has thrust the mayor into the middle of a year-long controversy over University's decision to hold Commence-June 7, a date which conflicts with the second day of the traditional Jewish holiday Shavuot. Not all American Jews recognize the holiday, however...
After the beaches had been secured on Dday, the first order of business was to organize a breakout. It had been an important part of Montgomery's strategy that British forces should thrust inland some 20 miles on D-day itself, well beyond Caen, a commercial crossroads. Partly out of caution, partly out of weariness, the vanguard of the British I Corps halted for the night about halfway there, some four miles north of the city. Compared with the victory on the beachhead, the failure to reach Caen that first day seemed a minor shortcoming. Montgomery even invited Churchill...
...Libyan act of ultimate defiance. In the meantime a coroner's court was told that Constable Fletcher had died of stomach wounds from shots fired by a high-velocity weapon, and that eyewitnesses had seen smoke and flames emanating from the barrel of an AK-47 automatic rifle thrust from an upstairs window of the embassy. For most of last week, her constable's cap lay on the pavement where it had fallen, still within firing range of Libyans inside the embassy. On Thursday, a fellow officer flouted orders and retrieved the cap so that, in police tradition...
...though the Harvard alumnus insists he supports "the main thrust" of Reagan's foreign policy agenda, his campaign takes on a moderate and sometimes liberal tone...
...system should enable freshmen to make their own informed decisions about course selection and we certainly agree that the current "advising system here is less than perfect," however, what Mr. Melamed fails to realize is that freshmen need more specific information than is currently given and that the main thrust of the thrust of the Council's proposals is to supplement rather than displace the appropriate role of the proctor...