Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fish suddenly thrust his fist up in the air and shouted, "Yeah. What a match...
...council members used in December to attack the election-reform plan show exactly why the measure is needed. Some members argued that they alone were knowledgeable enough to gauge a candidate's qualifications for the job. They warned that the unlettered rabble that is the Harvard student body might thrust some satanic demagogue on them, who would paralyze the council under the weight...
Nevertheless, the conclusion that such trade is abhorrent is not even controversial. Almost everyone agrees. Is almost everyone right? This question of how far we are willing to push the logic of capitalism will be thrust in our faces increasingly in coming years. Medical advances are making it possible to buy things that were previously unobtainable at any price. (The Baby M. "womb renting" case is another example.) Meanwhile, the communications and transportation revolutions are breaking down international borders, making new commercial relations possible between the comfortably rich and the desperately poor. On what basis...
...remember when I showed up at Cal Teach the first day, they asked me what I wanted to work on. I said, `I did some work on Crab Nebula, do you have any work on supernovae?' Some of these things are sort of thrust upon...
...four decades, knowing it is where a Soviet assault might come. "Gorbachev offers not just words but deeds," contended John Steinbruner, director of foreign policy studies at Washington's Brookings Institution. "It is now even harder to portray the Soviets as striving for the capability for a quick thrust into Europe...