Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, even on private occasions, without noting that he was watchful of every action, of every word that might be reported directly or indirectly in print or in unprinted gossip. He was oppressed by the fact that he was in a delicate position. Literally overnight, he had been thrust into the presidency. He had to adjust himself, and he knew that he had barely 15 months, in which to show whether he was a misfit, or a fixture...
...same plan as a young man, able but conservative, who goes into a bank, works hard, tries to be efficient, puts by, bit by bit, takes his annual raise and with reasonably good fortune rises eventually to an undistinguished executive post. Imagine such a man suddenly being thrust into high and rather frenzied finance. Such, largely, was Coolidge in politics...
...does not run away. In conclusion, the play lumps badly. For two opening acts of wrangling domestic comedy, in which another family splits over the same man, it amuses only mildly. Yet for this third-act thrust, it stamps itself upon the season as significant...
Some people labor long and hard to achieve prominence; others have it thrust upon them. Thus it is with Mr. I. Without doing anything more noteworthy than come to America from Hang How, China and enroll in Johns Hopkins Medical School, Mr. I suddenly finds himself the talk of the newspapers and the subject of learned discussion by philologists...
...have changed much, for he is not the kind of man to assume opinions lightly. Nevertheless, he had played a lone part in politics; in his new post, he cannot be quite so lonesome, quite so unique in his tenets, because the form, at least, of leadership is thrust upon...