Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Communist forces seem ubiquitous and unbeatable in the entire third of the country east of the Mekong River. Last week they launched a major thrust west of the Mekong as well, when a force of up to 600 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese seized the ferry crossing at Neak Luong, then drove up densely forested Route 1 to within 30 miles of Phnom-Penh...
Most supervisors did not even know that this decision had been thrust upon them because the statement from the personnel office came in the form of a news release. It was Sunday night- two days after it was issued, before the University made any effort to transmit its decision to the supervisors...
Fairbank, in the question-and-answer period, appeared to agree with the thrust of this new argument. He derided "the general models that usually involve the whole world" and put in a "plug" for the study of limited geographical areas...
...reasons, and to do that he must earn a place in the home of the braves. To prove his prowess, Morgan takes the Sun Vow, a masochistic ritual in which he is hoisted twelve feet above the earth, dangling by blades thrust into his pectoral muscles. He wins Running Deer, and eventually his freedom, but not before a series of unnatural tragedies destroys much of the tribe and all of his new-found identity...
...certain that the employees will vote today to remain on strike, but if they do a new thrust is needed...