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Word: thrusted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, about 7000 people participated inthe anti-abortion march, Hamley said. However,abortion has recently been thrust to the forefrontof state politics as a result of the U.S. SupremeCourt's decision in Webster v. ReproductiveHealth Services, which weakened federalprotection of abortion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Abortion Battle Heats Up | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Here it is, then, our annual antiapartheid movie. In moral thrust, A Dry White Season is exactly like its immediate predecessors, Cry Freedom and A World Apart. Once again a white liberal comes to radical consciousness after intimate confrontations with the murderous brutality of South African racism and suffers dreadfully as a result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bland Face of State Terror | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...plane's engines were apparently cut off halfway down the runway and went into reverse thrust, said David Hawthorne, a CBS News producer, who was on the plane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jet Down in N.Y. Harbor; Three of 62 Known Dead | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...decisions narrowing the scope of civil rights, minority leaders agree that the gains procured by the 1960s Civil Rights Movement have been effectively set back. African Americans as well as all other minority groups in this country will have to accept the harsh reality of a new era being thrust upon them...

Author: By Jean GAUVIN Jr., | Title: A Call to Educational Arms | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...Howard's main thrust was to strengthen the international reach of the organization and the program, especially to Third World and developing countries," says Kovach. "And in the process of doing that, the natural evolution was the need to offer Harvard and the program as a refuge for journalists who got in trouble for speaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making a World Safe for Journalists | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

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