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Word: thrusted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here thinking of the many objects I would like to thrust into the mouth of the protester on your cover [May 18], I say good for Mr. Nixon. In the short time since U.S. forces entered Cambodia, all of us here in Bien Hoa can see the good results. All of the supplies, i.e., weapons, ammo, rice, rockets, that have been found in "the City" and other places in Cambodia help us here Activity in our area has dropped. The V.C. gets his weapons at the store in Cambodia, and if the store is closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 15, 1970 | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

John A. Volpe must enjoy confounding his critics. A millionaire highway builder and former Republican Governor of Massachusetts, he was expected to pave over America when he became Richard Nixon's Secretary of Transportation. Instead, Volpe has stopped highway projects that would have thrust through park land and destroyed low-income housing and historic buildings. Says he: "We've got to provide a national transportation system with the least possible harm to the environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Cracking the Highway Trust | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

...directed outside the University, and reducing the strike steering committee's power to negligible proportions. The steering committee splintered over the issue: a majority of the committee voted to reject the mass meeting's decision, much of the committee resigned and soon the committee and with it. the radical thrust of the strike- was but a memory...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Harvard Activism '70: Some Rioted, While Others Returned to the System | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

Dynamic Black Studies programs, with sincere, realistic students and Faculty should be the fountainhead of a new social thrust toward eradicating the effects of racism in America...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: Ten Years Later: Black Studies Department Reflects a Decade of Change | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...march today is the beginning of a new era. We are using old techniques with the expectation of new results. People have got to get that ballot and use it. That's going to be our main thrust this summer. But first we have to get the people out. We wanted to get people to Atlanta on Saturday, but they wouldn't come because of fear. So we're undergoing an educational process. You know, after the voting-rights bill was passed, the only place where people crowded up by the thousands to register was in Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Expect More Jacksons | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

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