Word: thrusted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempted to assure the West that most Marxist regimes took power only with the force of outside arms. On its own, Communism took root only in benighted countries like czarist Russia and feudal China. The more advanced countries of Eastern Europe -- Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland -- had the Marxist-Leninist system thrust upon them on the point of a Soviet Red Army bayonet...
...victorious trio who three days earlier had easily defeated the handpicked candidates of Panamanian General Manuel Antonio Noriega for the posts of President and First and Second Vice Presidents. Suddenly the thugs grabbed the bodyguard of Guillermo Ford, the candidate for Second Vice President, shoved him against a car, thrust a gun into his mouth and fired...
...Dongeui University incident may give new thrust to conservative demands for a clampdown on antigovernment activities. At the least, the deaths have forced Koreans to re-examine how their budding democracy is faring. In a rare front-page editorial, the moderate daily newspaper Chosun Ilbo exhorted, "We can no longer let things go this way. The current disorder in society seems to be accelerating a doomsday for the nation...
...Undergraduate Council thrust itself into the national spotlight last Sunday when it approved a resolution calling for the return of an on-campus Reserve officers Training Corps program. The council got plenty of attention but also learned that when you're under bright lights, you have to take the heat...
...year he moved to Moscow, and 1915, he ran through the gamut of early modernist styles, from pointillism to cubism. Early works like Floor Polishers, 1911-12, show his assimilative powers: this gripping image of hard labor, where every line reinforces the muscular twist of bodies and the thrust of the feet with their waxing pads on the floor, ultimately derives from Matisse's Dance. Troglodytic, pious and massive, Malevich's figures of peasants from the '20s both assert modernity and deny...