Word: thrusted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part in the burgeoning Iranscam investigations deepened McFarlane's depression. He has testified more fully than anyone else. But, says his lawyer Leonard Garment, "the more information he gave, the more he became an object of scrutiny." Another friend adds that "he is a loyal ((former)) Marine suddenly thrust into the role of John Dean," the Nixon White House Counsel whose Senate testimony fueled the Watergate scandal...
DOWN THE STEPS WENT I, INTO the subterranean depths, torch thrust out ahead for light, seeking the Office of Career Services conference room. Okay, I didn't actually thrust out a torch, but it was pretty dark down there. And frightening. The agonizing search for summer employment was upon...
...shrewd Washington Post column, Novelist Erica Jong (Fear of Flying), formerly a high priestess of sexual abandon, put the dilemma succinctly: "It's hard enough to find attractive single men without having to quiz them on their history of bisexuality and drug use, demand blood-test results and thrust condoms into their hands. Wouldn't it be easier to give up sex altogether and join some religious order?" With a little emendation the same plaint can be made by men. "You think twice," observes a 28-year-old male / patron of Lucy's, a crowded singles bar on Manhattan...
...Filipino-American community is not culturally accustomed to supporting foundations. We really don't know what reaction we'll receive to our initial thrust," he says...
...trade laws and enhance American competitiveness. The Administration initiative, which will reach Capitol Hill in late February, is part and parcel of an aggressive U.S. posture toward some of its closest economic partners. Coming at a time when the air is already thick with international trade recriminations, the new thrust carries a major risk: that it will do less to alter the commercial balance than to bolster the increasingly strong protectionist forces that threaten to gnaw away at world economic growth...