Word: thrusted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), once far apart in their approach to the black push for equality, found themselves in agreement that the key to quick progress lay in the election of as many blacks as possible to political office-that is, access to political power. The results of that thrust have already begun to show. The House of Representatives now has twelve black members v. nine in the 91st Congress, still a tiny number, but not negligible; the twelve boycotted the President's State of the Union message to dramatize their unhappiness at Richard Nixon's refusal...
...riots were never part of a black revolutionary strategy as such; they grew out of combustible situations in which frustration finally vented itself, almost incoherently. Because that frustration is still a major facet of black life, similar emotional eruptions cannot be ruled out in the future. Still, the major thrust remains the effort to carve out a healthy black share in a pluralistic society...
...signal came from Washington early last week, hundreds of American helicopters lifted into the dust-choked sky at Khe Sanh, then darted off to landing zones, where South Vietnamese troops awaited them. At the same time, South Vietnamese tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled westward on Route 9 and thrust across the border into the jungles of Laos. A new and possibly perilous phase was beginning in the long struggle for Indochina...
Sharp fighting was also reported in Cambodia, where South Vietnamese forces are making a parallel thrust against reported supply lines and sanctuaries...
...treatment; recently Delta gave him a first-class seat though he held a coach ticket. When he stops at a bar, Calley invariably finds his drink tab (bourbon and Seven-Up) collected by an admirer. While in Washington, where he was undergoing psychiatric tests last week, he had $10 thrust at him by a stranger. In Columbus, Calley and his friends are always guests of the house at the Chickasaw Supper Club. A local wine shop gives him a discount. The president of the Fourth National Bank personally expedites Calley's transactions. One day Calley presented his check...