Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...microphones were thrust in my face. The crowd didn't go wild...
From the start, the Harvard career of these bells has been marked by tragedy. President A. Lawrence Lowell hired a Soviet to install and then tune the bells, unaware that they could not be tuned. The poor bell-tuner, thrust into Cambridge without knowing a bit of English, started to file notches into the bell rims, much to Lowell's chagrin. (He promptly had the man fired for defacing them...
...GUESS I probably to attach to much meaning to a piece of sugar. I must be emotionally scarred from an incident in junior high, when the future high school quarter back raced down the hall, pursued by his rowdy friends. As he passed me at my locker, he thrust a conversation heart down the back of my shirt. He kept running. I forget what the heart said, but I was intrigued. Over the next few days, I waited for some kind of follow-up, some explanation, some profession of love. Nothing happened...
...championed but because of the ones she didn't. Despite her concern for children, she refused to ally herself with conservative groups fighting to purge TV of excessive sex and violence. "I believe that censorship is worse than any kind of junk on TV," she maintained. Her primary thrust was not for quality (that overused term) so much as for diversity: to give parents and kids more choice. Children's TV may still be a long way from her goal, but it is a lot closer than it would have been without...
...nosed cartoon character been so cool -- or blundered his way into so much trouble. But Joe Camel is no ordinary creation. Conceived as a cross between Don Johnson and James Bond, the self-proclaimed "smooth character" found in Camel cigarette ads has, in the past three years, thrust the brand toward the top of the charts among the spring-break...