Word: thrusted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire thrust of our study of drug medication in the prisons of the six states was to suggest improved medical drug medication with, for example, better diagnosis, better follow-up of side-effects, and checking to see that prescribed drugs are actually taken. A reading only of our summary statement could be misunderstood on this point. We wish to correct that impression and stop the distorted, emotional response to the whole idea of "drug therapy...
...Opinion surveys show the American people are basically conservative in their political attitudes ... [but] the thrust of government in Washington is continuously to the left ..." Now I knew that the statement was ridiculous: everyone knows that the federal government is impotent. So I was going to throw the letter away and just start studying. But I was hooked. This M. Stanton Evans who had somehow gotten my name on his mailing list had more to tell me. Putting my readings aside, I continued: "While taxpaying conservatives are hard at work earning a living, an army of left-wing agitators, radical...
...remembered debating with junior White House staff members about the President's policy on race. The thrust of the discussion was how they could thwart integration. He was against the whole idea. Finally he blurted, "It's not right." There was, he recalled, silent disdain for such an irrelevancy...
...article was sent routinely to Post editors later on Sunday. No one handling the copy had seen the program. Apparently, no one checked it against Associated Press or United Press International accounts of the interview. Further, O'Brien's lead did not seem particularly awry: the whole thrust of Goldwater's remarks on the program had been singularly favorable to Nixon. O'Brien's story moved not only on the Post's presses but also over the wires of its news service to 225 client papers...
...which she always prepares for the boys, even if she then returns to bed until 3 p.m. Will Dewhurst's new post-Moon status affect all this? "At 49, with nearly three decades in the theater," she says, "being called a star doesn't have the same thrust it would have had at 30." Tugging a baggy sweater down over vintage denims, she smiles ruefully: "I am what I am now. I will still have the same friends I have had for the past 20 years, and my house will always look as it does now-messy...