Word: thrust
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When Virginia Woolf opened in 1962, it put the theatrical community into a uproar. Assist partisans jumped to thrust Albee into the Arthur Mailer Eugene O'Neill Tennessee Williams axis of great American playwrights its detractors lambasted it with a passion that could only indicate that Albee had indeed hit a few raw nerves. One noted drama critic addressed the popular view that the play could not be ignored saving. That's right, there is no way that we can ignore danger and disease. But it is not right therefore to welcome the plague into our midst...
Ironically, the defect stems, at least in part, from NASA'S own supercaution. To improve performance, Challenger's engines were built to operate at 9% greater thrust than those of the first orbiter, Columbia, when the throttle is fully opened. Realizing that this extra power would vibrate the spacecraft more violently, NASA engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center made a design change. They ordered reinforcement of the metal piping that carries hot, gaseous hydrogen fuel into the small chamber where the engines are first fired up and begin revving to their full 480,000 lbs. of thrust...
During the 1980 campaign, Candidate Reagan inveighed against left-leaning activist judges and promised a dramatic change; his Republican platform called for the appointment of judges who would restore respect for "traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life." The ideological thrust so distressed a group of 61 practicing lawyers and law professors that they signed an advertisement urging Reagan's defeat be cause he was a threat to an "independent judiciary." Last week TIME completed a straw poll of the signers to see if they still believe as they did in 1980. Of those who were...
Along with his concern for the homeless, Guernsey also has a strong religious motivation. "The whole thrust of what I'm doing, not only here, is that doing it for your neighbor is doing it for God," Guernsey says...
...slow songs for a change of pace. "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show forces us once again to perform--this time it's a jump to the left, a step to the right, our hands on our hips, and our legs in tight. We all thrust our communal pelvises, though this time it hurts...