Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickly denied by the Israelis. Though both Egypt and Syria insisted that invading Israeli troops had started the war, the evidence clearly indicated that the fourth Arab-Israeli war in 25 years had been launched by a massive Arab invasion. Within 24 hours, Israeli troops had stemmed the Arab thrust and were delivering a brutal counterattack...
...when the Columbia offense did manage to run some sort of attack, the Crimson D, having perfected the arts of team pursuit and gang tackling, thwarted every thrust the Lions attempted...
Nixon himself apparently initiated the plea bargaining in which Agnew and the Justice Department have participated. And the chances are good that Agnew's confession of his sins will in a perverse way help the man who thrust Agnew into the national spotlight in July...
...book has a fundamental thrust in dramatizing, through its narrative, how significant a mistake people make when they equate with satisfaction the general conservatism of an area like this Washington suburb. People trapped by a class system--or, rather, people trapped above subsistence level--find some way to cope. And if most people in the lower middle-class--the stable families--sit relatively complacent until directly threatened by change, there is a minority whose hard living demonstrates how much of the present the majority must mortgage in order to live for its dreams...
Agnew was a dishonest official, thrust into a position of visibility by Richard Nixon's crass political judgement in 1968. Nixon's man became a surrogate for his administration in speaking tours around the nation; now Agnew has become a symbol of Republican corruption...