Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thrust the Crimson into a four-way first place tie in the Ivy League, evening its overall record at 7-7, 3-2 in the Ivies...
...year, he has won all his competitions, including four U.S. and three world championships. For all his easy-looking successes, Hamilton has had the inevitable emotional kinks to straighten out. "You have all these idealistic values about what a champion should be," he says, "and suddenly you're thrust into living up to it. I felt I could never let down. I drove myself crazy. I was terrible to myself and everyone around me." His coach helped him to accept his fame. "I realized that I didn't have to be what the champions before me had been...
...refusal to countenance any form of power sharing between the right-wing government and leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. Said Maryland Congressman Michael Barnes, one of eleven legislators and foreign policy experts who participated in the commission's debates as "senior advisers," though not voting members: "The central thrust of this report is to recommend military solutions for the region and to deny the viability of political ones...
...many other people in Washington, is a racist pig. But surely this description is unfair to the barnyard swine, who, for all their disgusting habits, do not steal food from starving children and then lie to escape responsibility for the resulting sickness and death. That has been the thrust of the Reagan Administration's policy, which Graham seems intent upon seeing continued...
Under a blazing summer sun, the gravediggers thrust their shovels into the hard earth of the cemetery in Rafael Calzada, a village 19 miles south of Buenos Aires. A federal judge watched impassively and policemen stood at a respectful distance as the workers unearthed the remains of 15 bodies and carefully placed them in brown plastic bags. The hands of all but one of the corpses had been cut off, apparently to thwart later identification...