Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frequently, radiated energy, frequently karate-chopped the air or formed a fist to make a point, hooked his right thumb into his chest when referring to himself and several times rattled the china coffee cups in his vehemence. At one point, when describing how "the country is worried," he thrust his hands in the air like the victim of a stickup...
Mayor Alice K. Wolf, who supported the school program, attributes the success of the program to the students who first thrust the condom issue into the spotlight. "The students brought their matter to the attention of the city's leaders, showing that young people can be activists on their own behalf," Wolf said...
...rats of Tobruk," as the Australians called themselves, would hold out against Rommel for 242 days. Attack after attack failed to dislodge them. In the first week of December, just as the Pacific war began, an Allied thrust threatened to encircle Rommel's forces. To avoid falling into a trap, the Germans withdrew from Tobruk. In the last confusing battle over the fortress, 38,000 Axis soldiers were killed; the Allies lost...
Harvard's last piece of self-congratulatory puffery about the new Busch-Reisinger (Harvard Gazette, October 4) compels me to protest a huge imposture, a hoax thrust upon us by University...
...inevitable. Dismantling a seven-decade-old communist dictatorship and building new institutions from scratch is a Herculean task, especially for people who have no training in how to make democratic politics work. In Russia the current leaders did not attain power through a well-orchestrated plan but were thrust into a vacuum created by the failure of the reactionary putsch in August. They have been improvising ever since...