Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years. My grandchildren are different from my children, because they visit me and sing television ditties. They have been watching it. And no one is at home except the maid. I don't think we should continue that. The government can set the parameters, but the thrust must come from the family...
...initiated a second thrust to the petition drive yesterday...
...actor Michael O'Keefe, 38, now a regular on TV's Roseanne and Raitt's occasional songwriting partner. "It's been satisfying and very challenging," she says. "When you have two strong personalities, it's an adjustment to learn how to compromise. There's a constant thrust and parry in allowing the other person to have some space. It's a classic case of 'I can't believe I'm saying these things that I heard my parents say across the dinner table...
...pledged to help poor people, like the 3,000 gathered in a ramshackle neighborhood near Tijuana's airport. After a chorus of vivas, the candidate stepped down from the platform and, in his populist campaign style, waded into the crush to shake hands. The assassin edged up behind him, thrust a .38-cal. pistol at his head and fired. The bullet smashed through the candidate's skull, shattering his brain. Then the gunman leaned over and fired another bullet into the fallen man's stomach...
...There isn't any new department or concentration that we can point to there certainly has been...a thrust in dealing with issues in a more global and cosmopolitan way," Buell says...