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Word: thrustingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change in mood among black students has also been the impetus for a number of modifications in black life at Harvard. The Black tables have disappeared from Quincy House and the Freshman Union, and blacks are participating in college activities at a greatly increased level. The thrust is toward understanding the white man, and thus being better able to deal with him rather than, the old philosophy of keeping him at a safe distance...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee. iii, | Title: The New Black Mood | 10/25/1972 | See Source »

...consult the regulation guidebook, dutifully trudge around to examine the local museum, the famous landmarks, and the historic sites-and then think they know all about the place. Nothing could be farther from the truth, says Richard Saul Wurman, 37, a Philadelphia architect. Only when Americans really understand the thrust and logic, or illogic, of their cities can they start to improve the urban mess around them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Understanding Cities | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...George Wallace's smashing victory in the Florida Primary outdated, undermined, or reversed several of these black strategies. His victory not only thrust Hubert Humphrey far to the right of the position he held in his halcyon days, but it also made it more difficult for many blacks to believe that they could afford to withhold their support any longer from the more liberal Democratic contenders in hopes of getting more for that support later. If Wallace built momentum unchecked in the primaries, later might be too late...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: A Troubled Alliance Endures | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

...while in Charleston Blue a dynamic young black photographer who rids the community of heroin turns out to be using it for his own purposes. Black Americans are implicitly instructed that Pan-Africanist leaders are frauds and that blacks who attempt to serve the community have alternative motives. The thrust of these films is that blacks are incapable of solving their own problems and only the all-embracing parental arm of white law can save blacks from themselves...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: Black Movies: A New Wave of Exploitation | 10/10/1972 | See Source »

Munching a tasty morsel of union lettuce (thousand island dressing), he pondered the strange twists of fate which had stayed his rag-tag troops from victory and thrust them into ignominious defeat at the hands of The Crime on two previous occasions...

Author: By Ho Cosell, | Title: Bok May Test Faulty Tendon Today | 10/7/1972 | See Source »

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