Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson (June 15, 1972) entitled "Tell Me, Now Can I Get Tenure at Harvard?" Arthur Lubow offered the readers of the newspaper, including the thousands of vision to the graduation ceremonials, what purported to be in inside, scandalous view of the appointment process at Harvard. The principal thrust of the article was the influence of extraneous considerations in appointments; citing examples from a Fnumber of departments, but particularly from History. Lubow described a process in which personal preference and political sympathy outweigh intellectual merit...
...from an engine not yet developed, perhaps the proposed NERVA (for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications). It consists of a small nuclear reactor that heats liquid hydrogen until it is expelled as a jet of white-hot gas. To kick out of earth orbit (which requires much less thrust than an earth launch), the 270-ft.-long ships will fire-and then discard-the two outboard NERVAs strapped to their sides; the main booster, at the center of the engine cluster, will be retained. Then, as the two ships pull away from earth orbit, they will be docked...
...people who struggled for my freedom... It was kind of an accident that things happened the way they did. It could have been someone else... I always saw my role in the struggle to be that of a different kind of worker. But now that she responsibility has been thrust upon me. I'm going to do the best I can to try to live...
Galy's transformation is thrust upon hits because the soldiers fear annihilation by their brutish sergeant, Bloody Five, whom pleasure is in others' punishment. Though his bluster and machismo parody his he-man style, Bloody Five is in truth as cruel as his nickname. His power overwhelms everyone but the camp follower, Widow Begbick. She knows the weakness intrinsic to all men especially strong ones, and eventually triggers Five's disgrace. Bloody Five's bravura balances Galy's passive foolishness. As surely as the latter metamorphoses into the army beast, the former weakens and falls. It's grim stuff...
Paul Benedict becomes a bit too automatic in presenting Edgar's half of the thrust and parry, but knows how to get the most out of humor based on repetition "We'll say no more about this" he concludes several exchanges, and delivers the line at just the right time in each instance. Benedict plays a character whose motto is "eliminate, wipe out, carry on" in a manner suggesting a malicious version of Edmund Muskie...