Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parsifal. The recent thrust toward Arab control of Middle Eastern oil began in 1970, and the man who started it all was the new, young (then 28) and hotheaded ruler of Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who had seized power in a military coup the year before. Spurred by the instincts of Arab nationalism and pride, he rejected the prevailing royalty rates and launched a bitter, ten-month campaign for a better deal. Because the industrial world's appetite for fuel was and is insatiable, he was able to force the oil companies to increase Libya's oil royalties...
...Forget it, it won't work,' " he grins. "Me, I never even heard of Bernoulli's principle." That dictum, upon which all conventional airfoils are based, says that the faster a gas or fluid flows, the less pressure it exerts. As an aircraft wing is thrust forward, the flow of air over the curved upper surface is faster than the flow past the flat underside. Thus there is more push from beneath the wing than on the upper surface, where pressure is reduced; that "lift" keeps planes aloft...
Granted that the show is an entertainment hybrid, Writer-Director-Choreographer Michael Bennett is unstinting in his professionalism. Aided by Grover Dale, Bob Avian and Tommy Tune, Bennett's dances have a carnal thrust that evokes aspects of both the play and work life of the city. One balloon-saturated number featuring the elongatedly energetic 6-ft. 6-in. Tommy Tune is a bit like meeting E.E. Cummings' mythical "goat-footed balloonMan" in Central Park in the spring...
...superiors?as a submarine officer, a Pentagon naval aide and in second-level posts in the Nixon Administration?Gray was selected by Nixon as acting director because of, above all else, that subservience. And it is his devotion to Nixon that has created the nomination controversy and has thrust the President and the Senate toward another classic collision over their respective powers. Nixon may well be forced to abandon the nomination, or he may persuade Gray to withdraw?something that anyone who respects the chain of command as Gray does would obligingly...
Steve's only claim to fame is last year's Yale game, when Cleary thrust him in halfway through the game and he preserved a slim Harvard lead under pressure. This season he's played in eight contests and allowed five goals. In all of the games Harvard was either way ahead or too far behind to make any of these goals matter...