Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That thrust the Democrats back to the issues of the economy and other neglected domestic problems plus Nixon's personality. At a meeting of 14 Midwest Governors in Nebraska, Republicans expressed anxiety about Nixon's re-election chances. "It was a major coup," said Michigan's William G. Milliken about the planned trip to Peking. "But the state of the economy in 1972 will have as decided an effect on Mr. Nixon's ability to carry Michigan and the rest of the country." Michigan's unemployment rate is 9%; other Governors reported the continued concern...
...reminds me of myself when I was that age." Not even the young Nasser, however, was a hell raiser to compare with Muammar Gaddafi, who at 28 is leader of the revolutionary council that rules oil-rich Libya. Born in a nomad's tent, schooled in the army, thrust to power in a coup that overthrew Libya's aging King Idris two years ago, Gaddafi stands unchallenged as the enfant terrible of Arab nationalism...
...recent weeks, resistance has steadily mounted. The army response has been a pattern of harsh reprisals for guerrilla hit-and-run forays, sabotage and assassination of collaborators. But the Mukti Bahini, the Bengali liberation forces, have blasted hundreds of bridges and culverts, paralyzing road and rail traffic. The main thrust of the guerrilla movement is coming from across the Indian border, where the Bangla Desh (Bengal Nation) provisional government has undertaken a massive recruitment and training program. Pakistani President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan last week charged that there were 24 such camps within India, and Indians no longer even bother...
...from a great natural voice, but it has the deceptive thin strength of a whip antenna. Its basic hue is a Canarsie twang that suggests Judy Holliday negotiating The Party's Over. But hue is one thing and cry another, as proved by Carole's pile-driving thrust in a number called Smackwater Jack, or her tender, searching way with the line, "Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever gonna make it home again...
...committee avoided any criticism of the overall thrust of the program. Instead, it zeroed in on the transposition of quotations and out-of-context quotes from a Pentagon official, and a colonel who is now suing CBS for $6 million...