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Word: thrustingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though I am a staid and somewhat conservative professional man inured to beautiful women thrust on me by the media, your feature on Cheryl Tiegs moves me to comment: "Woof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1978 | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...Casey. Even a lesser Irish dramatist like Hugh Leonard can be uncommonly rewarding. Da, now at Manhattan's Hudson. Guild Theater, means dad. The play is a fencing match with the ghosts of the past. The blood drawn is palpably human, the wit, parried and thrust, strikes sparks of continuous and sometimes quite unexpected humor. Says the father in Da of his late wife: "She died an Irishwoman's death-drinking tea." The laughs crop up like that, not as explosions but implosions, deeply rooted in character and race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Urn of Memory | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...time has come for blacks to make a major thrust in the political arena," Eddie Williams, president of the Joint Center for Political Studies (JCPS), said yesterday in a talk to about 15 people in Leverett Junior Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Calls for Minorities To Strive for Political Unity | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

...modest first steps," the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) recommendations--price stabilization for important Third World commodities, increased Western aid to the Third World, a world tariff structure to encourage Third World industrialization, and a rescheduling of Third World debt payments. Throughout the book, however, the thrust of Harrington's argument has been that these very UNCTAD demands are not enough, because as long as they remain within the existing world structure of inequity they can offer no fundamental reforms or helpful change. He is vague about what will follow these modest first steps, expressing only...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: The Other Three-Fourths | 3/15/1978 | See Source »

...Life Society, and it has been struggling to hold on to its dwindling following (about 200). To rally the faithful, Truth Incarnate spoke at Manhattan's Society for Ethical Culture: "A potter can make many, many pots, but many, many pots can't make a potter." The thrust of his pap-psychology? "Life is not complete till you acquire a master." Also, Big Brother knows best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 13, 1978 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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