Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ploy worked, and talk-show fans began perceiving Reynolds as "a man smarter than the roles he played." Soon Johnny Carson started asking Reynolds to fill in as host of the Tonight Show. Even the infamous nude centerfold photo in Cosmo was intended as a put-on, a satirical thrust at the whole institution of centerfolds and a self-parody of his own growing macho image. That gambit may have worked a little too well. The magazine hit the stands just as Reynolds' first really good picture, Deliverance, hit the screen, and some of his friends think the gatefold...
...five-player thrust that kept Harvard in the lead, as floor general Fine dribbled deftly and handed off assists, Booker and Stenhouse took care of the scoring, Allen defended Caligaris as well as can be expected, and Ackerman chipped in with a couple of uncharacteristic gyrating...
...Weapon, and then the Israeli Hatikvah. In a hushed, deeply moving tableau, Sadat walked along the receiving line with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to greet the old and resolute enemies: former Premiers Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Ariel Sharon, "Israel's Patton," who thrust Israeli armor deep into Egypt in the October...
Seattle is now enjoying the benefits of another of Ellis' grand plans, known as Forward Thrust. Voters in 1968 approved $334 million in bonds to finance 615 civic improvement projects in Ellis' package. Freeway Park, for instance, a five-acre area of greenery and waterfalls, was built on a great lid placed over a downtown thoroughfare. The program, which scattered parks and swimming pools all over town, also financed the $59.8 million stadium that Kingdome, a covered stadium that literally made Seattle a big-league city. It is the home of the Seahawks (football), the Sounders (soccer...
Advocates argue that a constitutional amendment would add force to the thrust for equal rights. Women would find it easier to challenge archaic laws that in some states put them at a disadvantage in such matters as inheritance and property rights. They also would be in a better position to win law suits against employers charged with discrimination in hiring and promotions. Equally important, ERA would add a certain symbolic weight to the women's movement...