Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action yesterday a North Vietnamese tank column chased Saigon troops down Highway 9 to within six miles of South Vietnam's northwestern border while a U. S. force scrambled to block any North Vietnamese thrust across the frontier...
...ruckus tended to obscure the real issue. What is actually under attack -and at stake in Laos-is Nixon's whole Indochina policy. The thrust into Laos represents a huge gamble. Yet there has been a growing sense in the White House in recent weeks that perhaps, just perhaps, the U.S. may be able to pull off not only a successful withdrawal from Indochina but some form of victory as well. That victory would be based on the ability of a South Vietnamese government to survive without large-scale U.S. help and like South Korea after 1954, to hold...
...More than that, the British warned Haughton that Lockheed would likely have to pay about $1.2 million to buy each engine v. the $840,000 specified in the original contract. Also, the first engines would be six months late in delivery, and they would have only 37,000 lbs. thrust. Delivery of engines with the full planned thrust of 42,000 Ibs. would be 18 months late. Moreover, Lockheed would have to waive the $120 million in penalties that it could have tried to collect for late delivery under the old contract...
...freshman U.S. Senator in 1954, Ervin thrust himself onto the front pages with a folksy anecdote underlining his contempt for his Communist-hunting Wisconsin colleague Joe McCarthy. According to Ervin, Uncle Ephraim Swink, a sick, arthritic mountaineer, was called upon to testify to his religious experiences at a revival meeting. Uncle Ephraim remained silent. Finally the minister said, "Brother Swink, suppose you tell us what God has done for you." Uncle Ephraim pulled his crippled body from his seat and replied, "Brother, he has mighty nigh ruint me." Said Ervin: "Mr. President, that is about what Senator McCarthy has done...
...attempting to wrest present justice from past injustice. Arthur Miller's The Price is a perfect example. In alchemistic drama, the goal is to transmute the heavy base metals of the past into present lyric gold, as Tennessee Williams did in The Glass Menagerie. Generally speaking, the main thrust of retributive drama is moral, and that of alchemistic drama is aesthetic...