Word: thrusted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopped across Tennessee, Carter carefully but forcefully attacked Reagan's positions without hitting Reagan personally, and he noticeably recast his earlier statements to give them a more positive thrust: "I want to see the nation united, North and South united, black and white united, rural and urban united...
...innings of thrust and parry in Kansas City last night, but in the end, the Royals delivered the Philadelphia Phillies the coup de grace to take the third game of the World Series...
Iraq's thrust into Iran came to a stuttering halt last week as both sides dug in and a rocking, punishing kind of stalemate set in. The enemies exchanged thundering barrages of artillery across the Shatt al Arab estuary. Iraqi infantrymen intent on consolidating their sliver of captured Iranian territory took heavy losses in hand-to-hand fighting for possession of three key towns and a vital port installation. Iranian Phantom fighter-bombers streaked low under the radar in deep penetration raids all the way to the enemy capital of Baghdad. Beneath the orange fireballs and black smoke gushing...
...report urges that colleges try harder to bring order and coherence to of ten chaotic undergraduate curriculums. But its main thrust is at elementary and secondary education. Federal programs for educating the disadvantaged and for teaching basic skills now total more than $3.5 billion, and the commissioners fear that by seeking only a "bare minimum of literacy," such programs undermine the broader, if less measurable, task of teaching students how to think. The report urges that "critical thinking" be viewed as a basic skill and be so defined by the U.S. Department of Education...
Lanzillo had the crowd of 100 buzzing againt at 21:37 of the second half, heading a Duggan corner kick into the twines. That made two goals for the year, and thrust him up among the team leaders in that department. Following the game, Lanzillo waxed modestly about his two-goal performance. "The balls were there, and I was in the same place...It's just nice to score...