Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face of it, things are not that complicated. The thrust of the tenure system administrators have said, is to ensure the widest possible effort to recruit the very best in a given field. To this end, an elaborate system of checks and balances in place since the 1930s, has been created regard against "insidership" and to make sure candidates are judged strictly on their merits as scholars and teachers, not their political skills. (Some professors maintain, however, that the tenure process in certain departments have mailed the budget process on Capitol Hill...
...other cities the Pope would not visit came to Warsaw to see him. Jammed ten deep along the route of John Paul's motorcade, they raised homemade signs naming the cities from which they had come. Like the heroine of a Delacroix painting, one robust woman boldly thrust a banner reading GDANSK WELCOMES YOU toward a column of police as the procession filed past. The crowd roared its approval...
...decorated with white-and-red Polish flags, yellow-and-white papal pennants and portraits of the Pope and the Black Madonna. As John Paul rode past in the white Popemobile that had been brought from Rome, a wave of emotion surged through the crowd. Some Poles openly wept. Others thrust their fingers defiantly into the air in a V sign and chanted "Solidarnosc"and "Walesa...
...impressive clinical cures have led some sexologists to view their once hallowed work with increasing skepticism. "The foundations of sex therapy, as designed by Masters and Johnson, are shaken," says Forum Editor Philip Nobile. "The field can no longer look with certainty at the bible. The whole thrust of human sexual inadequacy is in question...
Elliott fell in love with politics along with the rest of his town when popular local physician Otis "Doc" Bowen ran for governor in 1972. Bowen swept into office with the Nixon landslide that year, and sixth grader Elliott was captivated by the furor: "The whole community was just thrust into a political frenzy for months. It was exceedingly exciting, not just politically, but in a very personal way... We attended umpteen political rallies and speeches, with the TV cameras and lights and everything... Somewhere in the campaign, I became involved in the whole process, became an avid Republican...