Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union's momentum went unnoticed, however, at the Faculty meeting one week before the strike, when administrators and professors met to discuss issues raised by the Kraus plan. The Union's demands and the entire thrust of the student protest never entered the Faculty's discussion, except peripherally when a Union member presented his position during the question and answer period. Instead, professors, deans and President Bok spent the entire afternoon discussing an official presentation of GSAS financial affairs, delivered by Edward T. Wilcox, acting dean of the GSAS...
...that the average worker was sacrificing the possibility of an intrinsically interesting worklife in order to attain material well-being. Now, workers -- in offices as well as on assembly lines -- are beginning to demand more control over their workplace, and increased opportunities to engage in rewarding work. Nonetheless, the thrust of rhetoric of the student left was too often directed against the worker's perfectly sensible desires for material security...
...their money. "It's like Chinese food," says Run Run. "When Americans taste it, they like it." Indeed they do. In one recent week, the three top-grossing films in the U.S. were a trio of brothers-in-Kung Fu: Five Fingers, Fists of Fury and Deep Thrust: The Hand of Death...
...overcome this deficit, Good urges the NCI to expand its budget for basic research, while continuing to apply current knowledge whenever possible. He also advocates abandoning the plan to limit NCI support to scientists working in cancer-related fields. "If we're going to make a thrust on cancer," says Good, "it must be in addition to what is being done in other areas. If we try to solve the cancer problem while ignoring others, we're not going to solve anything...
...distinction between national security operations and the Watergate case." Yet the thrust of the Nixon rhetoric was exactly the opposite. He seemed determined to blur the distinction even more...