Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infiltrated its ranks. In 1995 journalist Donna Minkowitz went undercover on assignment for Ms. magazine to a Promise Keepers rally in St. Petersburg, Fla., disguised as a 16-year-old boy. She says that while the group is antigay and antiabortion, that is not the Promise Keepers' main thrust. "In some ways," she says, "I think they are changing men in a really good way that feminists would like. While some of their message is antifeminist and right wing, I think ignoring the good side doesn't do us a service...
...write a book that would locate itself at the interface of the real world and the searches that people and institutions launch to understand it." He admits that the writer, during the age he chronicles, has become "a marginal figure," reduced to "observing from the edge." Underworld should thrust DeLillo, whether he likes it or not, into the hot center...
Paul, 41, died instantly. His body, thrust halfway through the windshield, leaned against the horn, which wailed bleakly out of the wreckage. Rees-Jones, the only passenger wearing a seat belt, was alive but badly hurt, his jaw shattered and his tongue reportedly severed. If Diana had been wearing a seat belt, would she have survived? Though the front of the car was crushed, the rear passenger compartment, in which she and Dodi were riding, was not. She came to rest in the footwell, slumped so that she was facing toward the rear of the car with her head leaning...
...PALC and Afro protesters marched out of the hall, their fists thrust upward in a proud, but less-than-victorious, end to the building occupation. They and the cheering supporters paraded through Holyoke Center and down Mt. Auburn Street...
PALC protesters march out of Mass. Hall, their fists thrust upward, in a proud but less-than-victorious end to the 153-hour occupation, the longest in Harvard's history...