Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrust of the women's attack on the still-to-be implemented plan was that the procedures set forth for increasing the percentages of women, blacks and other minorities were fuzzy and inadequate. They proposed no implementation until Harvard's $250,000 plan has gone back to the drawing board...
Enduring that curious flat state of humid thoughtlessness, there boiled within me enough fires of ambition and blind striving to exit the state but there was never enough heat to forge a steel hard version of truth. Perhaps the thrust of my departure propelled me high enough to see what I had been so charmed by and had blindly pursued in the name of fame and love of God as but the echo of an echo. The culture I aspired to see clearly would always by drowned by initial perceptions. Sunk beneath the latest translation and the re-re-echo...
Arik's Complaint. The opening salvo in this war was fired by Major General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 45, who was called out of retirement to lead the successful Israeli thrust across the Suez Canal that helped trap Egypt's Third Army. In interviews with reporters from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times that were filed from Rome to skirt the tough Israeli censors, Sharon charged that his superiors were not prepared for the war. The General amplified his accusations in yet another in- -terview with American University Professor Amos Perlmutter: "The Southern Command collapsed completely...
...role has become that of a spurned suitor who continues courting in order to save face. "How can the U.S. say it is defending the Middle East against Communism when we told the Russians to get out in 1972?" asks a high-ranking Egyptian official. The main thrust of Egyptian policy is toward improving relations with the U.S.-in return for American pressure on Israel...
HARVEY COX'S Seduction of the Spirit is properly not a book at all but a manifesto and a scattering of blueprints. Its thrust: Marx was only half-right. Religion is not always and everywhere or merely an opiate of the masses. Though it often serves as a "sedative administered without consent," religion is also sometimes the only way a defeated culture can preserve its history. An oppressed people's religion becomes a way to stave off extinction and absorption. Through ritual and symbol, collective remembrance and testimony, it endures as a sanctuary for the impulse and energies of liberation...