Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blind Muslim cleric stumbled forward and butted the microphone with his head before a minder steadied him. Another aide whispered the presidential oath in his ear as he pretended to read the words out loud from the folder thrust into his hands. It was an awkward beginning in front of the national assembly for Abdurrahman Wahid, a stroke victim who last Wednesday became the first freely elected President of Indonesia. And it was a bitter denouement for Megawati Sukarnoputri, the presumed front runner who had been left sucking for air by a series of political maneuvers she hadn't even...
...denouncing the dung-covered Madonna collage being exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and for attempting to cut off public funding for the museum [NATION, Oct. 4]. Our society needs more courageous, moral people like Mayor Giuliani to stand up against the filth that is constantly being thrust upon us by left-wing liberals in the arts and entertainment. AUGUSTUS S. HUSSELTON Harrisburg...
This is the third time that an MIT fraternity has appeared before the board in two years. The first of these incidents, the 1997 death of fraternity pledge Scott Krueger after a night of drinking, thrust MIT's drinking policy into the national spotlight...
Though much of her research centers on the consumption behavior of adults, Schor says her theory of consumer society can be applied to Harvard--where many students are "thrust" into a reference group that is relatively affluent...
...great misunderstanding. In Littleton it seemed that the tragedy was unambiguous: Two high school students killed their classmates in a library. However, the lesson learned was a misunderstanding of epic proportions, one that has surreptitiously stolen the debate away from the arena of gun-control and counseling and thrust it into the revival tent of Bible-thumping Baptists...