Word: thrusted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Misleading Gaddafi was one thing, but what troubled Washington's press corps was the idea that it had been duped as well. Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine stood by the basic thrust of his paper's story: that the U.S. believed Libya had resumed sponsoring terrorist acts, and was exploring ways of deterring Gaddafi. But Pearlstine "deplored" the Administration's "attempt to mislead the Journal and its readers" about the "likelihood of employing some of these options." A New York Times editorial summarized the reasons for the journalistic outrage: "All media, all Americans, are vulnerable because they must...
What's more, they can ponderously lament that they have been cursed with big breasts, thrust into a society that won't listen to them and terrorized...
...bills differ in specific provisions but are similar in thrust, proposing a broad approach that would pour money into enforcement education, rehabilitation and crop eradication, and would withhold aid from recalcitrant producer countries...
...were playing stickball in Manhattan playgrounds, Tisch was a student at New York University. At Harvard Law School in 1946, he seemed to have a bright future, but then he dropped out. Some 40 years later, having become a tycoon while keeping a low profile, Tisch, 63, has suddenly thrust himself into an unfamiliar spotlight at the helm of CBS, one of America's best-known corporations...
...conceding that the cases should be treated as equivalent, despite its repeated thunders that Zakharov is a real spy arrested in the act of trying to buy classified documents while Daniloff is the innocent victim of a crude KGB frame-up that began when a Soviet acquaintance thrust a package of documents into his hands in Moscow...