Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chill on relations with the U.S., they do so with more military muscle than ever before. Moscow has not only been rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal, it has also increased its conventional forces so that it is today questionable whether NATO troops would be able to thwart a Russian thrust into Central Europe...
Alexander Calder's timing was never off. On the face of it, the best death an artist could have is to perish laden with age and honors yet still working, and at a time when he is thrust anew into the public eye through a large and deservedly popular exhibition of 50 years of his work. Such was the context of Calder's death last week, from a heart attack, at the age of 78. The flag on New York's Whitney Museum, where his show of more than 200 works had opened in October (TIME...
...Immediately-so that we can start ma-ing plans. I would like Congress to direct the President to reorganize the Executive Branch, subject to subsequent veto of the Congress on individual proposals. This would give tremendous substance to the whole thrust-you could go into a department and say, "This is what we want to do now. The law says it must be done, and I'm the President and I'm carrying out Congress's directives and my own commitment to the American people...
...assistant director of the Boston OCR said last week that the report, which is now on his desk, is unacceptable, because it does not reflect a verbal report he received from its authors earlier this year. With this disclosure, the future of the report is further thrust into doubt...
...Labor government is convinced that fulfilling such conditions would mean its own downfall, since it rules largely by the favor of the unions, which would be horrified by such measures. In that case, Britain would be thrust into a bitter election campaign; though there has been talk of a national coalition government, both Tories and Laborites now seem set against it. The outcome could be a Tory government pledged to spending cuts that, according to Prime Minister Callaghan, would plunge the nation into social turmoil, or drastic cuts in British imports and the standard of living decreed by a government...