Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer to a strikingly varied group of officials from Zambia, Sudan, France, the Congo Republic, Poland and South Yemen. Rumanian Defense Minister Ion lonita was overwhelmed with hospitality and treated to a private audience with the usually inaccessible Chairman Mao. But for all the activity at home, the main thrust of the new Chinese diplomacy has been in other nations...
Rarely have cities avoided congestion; even ancient Rome was jammed with chariots and oxcarts. Yet today the world's cities are being drastically reshaped by the automobile, that super-congestor and enemy of pedestrians. The car has thrust high-speed freeways through downtown areas; it has squeezed city dwellers onto narrow sidewalks and into motorized suburbs. Worst of all, 60% of urban smog is caused by motor-vehicle exhaust...
...link is fragile. It breaks under the project's pressure as Harold MacLaurin becomes so totally absorbed by his work that he is useless as lover and father. Timmy weakly explores adolescence without a satisfactory guide. After learning that another scientist had thrust her at Harold in order to provide the peace of mind necessary to assure his productivity, Maryann despairingly takes on all comers in a military-police barracks and disappears...
...measure my practice spits without a tape." For a month before a big contest, he spits for about two hours a day, fixing his eyes, his head, his entire body on target before he lets fly a practice shot. Unlike others, he uses hardly any body thrust...
...assembled near Kham Duc, a long-abandoned Special Forces camp near the Laotian border. But U.S. commanders insist that there are no plans for a Cambodia-style lunge into Laos. For one thing, negotiations are now under way between the Vientiane government and the Communist Pathet Lao, and a thrust into Laos could shatter whatever fragile chances exist for a truce ending the seesawing conflict in that country...