Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last two victories over Yale and Dartmouth as a new star on the Bruin squad. Rotelli, a junior from Providence, had not seen much ice time during the first half of the season. But when promising sophomore Rich Heimbach was sidelined with a torn knee ligament, Rotelli was thrust into a regular shift...
Although we join Ford in hoping that he will not be thrust into controversy once again, there is a danger of stagnation in the way in which his caretaker position is circumscribed. Ford said last week that he expects to be tightly constrained in decision-making, because he must be responsible both to his predecessor, John T. Dunlop, and the yet-to-be chosen permanent dean...
President Bok's appointment of Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, as Acting Dean Ford's legislative counterpart, will thrust the relatively unknown physicist into the public spotlight, a position he usually shuns...
...Almost all of the important activities of the College can contribute to the cultivation of lasting interests outside the student's main vocational thrust. Ideally, the entire curriculum should foster a range of enduring intellectual interests. In particular, a carefully conceived concentration should encourage the student to pursue the subject throughout his life with a reasonably sophisticated degree of understanding. There is one area, however, in which specific steps might be taken and that is in the arts. To be sure, there is already a wealth of interest and activity in music, drama, painting, sculpture, and creative writing...
...final gala dinner, the German Chancellor nearly forgot to wear the lapel button of his brand new Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur, then suffered a brief moment of panic when he discovered his dinner jacket had no buttonhole. The situation was saved by the deft thrust of a pocket knife...