Word: thrust
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...infinitely more effective and important than any actions based upon abstract ideas of justice can be. What's more, by keeping the fulfillment of social obligations at the individual level, those who disagree with the "progressive" agenda can help others as they please and not have another's morality thrust upon them. I am sure Redmond would not want any conservatives to use the Undergraduate Council as a tool to force their views on sexual morality upon the campus; why then is it acceptable for her and other "progressives" to use the council to force their views on economic morality...
...entered a short-lived marriage and moved to Hollywood for a few years, where he played bit parts in B-movies and took candid shots of the stars. Some of them, like his Hollywood Babylon-ish picture of Jayne Mansfield with her teeth and her bra in full forward thrust, have the lowdown feel of his tenement days. But when he came back to New York in 1952, he didn't understand the postwar city of slum clearance and social workers, the one that the Jews and the Irish and the Italians were all leaving for the suburbs. So Weegee...
Friendship is thrust upon Melvin, and he doesn't quite know what to do with it. When Simon is beat up in his apartment and Melvin winds up caring for his dog (the very one he tried to dump earlier), Melvin develops an attachment to the animal that sets the stage for actual interaction with humans. Similarly, he becomes so dependent on the daily routine of Carol's service that, when she takes time off to care for her asthmatic son, he is virtually forced to involve himself in her life and set things right again. In the process...
...from photographs of the Old West, which Pathfinder's greatly resemble, no-man's-land has always been America's fallback version of paradise--if not Eden, at least a new proving ground. So those Martian postcards may show nothing in particular, but for the imagination operating in forward thrust they are plausible glimpses of heaven...
WASHINGTON: Nobody likes a tell-tale. That?s the basic thrust of a letter sent by Secret Service Director Lewis Merletti to 3,200 of his current and 500 of his former agents. In the wake of one of their number ratting on President Kennedy?s memory for the sake of Seymour Hersh, Merletti reminds his men, an agent?s determination to keep confidences ?should continue forever...