Word: thrusted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captured 92 of the parliament's 237 seats, decisively beating the Islamic Democratic Alliance, its nearest competitor and the relic of Zia, who died in a plane crash three months before the vote. The Alliance won only 55 seats. A surge of ethnic support thrust the fledgling Mohajir Qaumi Movement into the third and pivotal position with 13 seats...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in Washington for valedictory visits to Reagan, took Bush aside to voice their concerns about the U.S. economy. (Thatcher, interestingly, spent as much time with Greenspan as with Bush.) Meanwhile, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in yet another deft diplomatic thrust, announced that he would make a surprise visit to the United Nations next month. The President and President-elect ruled out any impromptu superpower bargaining. Still, complained a senior Bush foreign policy adviser, "we're already being expected to govern. It isn't fair, but we aren't able...
...worship Eva Peron inspires is eerily reminiscent of fascism--the crowd chants "Pe-ron" over and over again--and Rebecca Shannon's excellent choreography heightens the resemblance by having chorus members thrust their arms out in rhythmic salutes. Shannon also makes good use of the Mainstage's ample space, as she balances different groups off one another. In "Peron's Latest Flame," for example, the aristocrats step lightly and delicately, tilting their cigarette holders in disgust, while the military men stomp across the stage swinging their arms...
Normally, he would never come home during the day. I met the car at the gate. My father thrust his black briefcase into my hands and exhaled, "It's over . . . retired...
...result of the committee's recommendation, the police added more personnel to the Central Square beat and the department started keeping better crime statistics, Rossi says. Like Woodbury, Rossi insists that "the whole thrust was not to change Central Square but to make it more appealing for those who already live there...