Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long time it was taken for granted that this was the way things were, that there were empirical reasons for treating women differently. In effect it was discrimination. As a result of specific complaints and the affirmative thrust of Civil Rights laws there has been an awakening to facts that had simply been ignored," Richardson said," and all this has only happened within the past few years...
...major new escalation of the war, and a high-risk gamble by President Nixon-one that he had been reluctant to take. Inescapably, it was a blow of retribution; the U.S. said that its new thrust northward was prompted by North Viet Nam's "mass invasion" of the South. The military justification was that Haiphong, is the North's: entrepôt for war supplies. But those supplies cannot affect the war between now and the start of the rainy season next month, when military activity slows down anyway. Thus the only strictly military advantage of the bombing...
...thing, such as Yellow Submarine, for which he commuted to England to work on the script, and Without Apparent Motive, in which he played a French-speaking murder victim. Then came his super-bestseller, Love Story, which brought on such burdens as the latchkeys he said were thrust on him by airline hostesses. At Yale since 1964, an associate professor since 1968, Segal, 34, was up for tenure-which means that its possessor cannot be fired, except for flagrant wrongdoing. But the classics faculty turned thumbs down. Instead they appointed him senior lecturer, a post that carries fewer classroom responsibilities...
Privately, network executives speculated that political motives may have determined the thrust and timing of the action, which the department conceded had been pending for years. "Is it the ITT case?" asked one, and answered himself: "Possibly it's an attempt to blur that image with this and a slew of other [antitrust] actions." Another saw the filing of the cases at this particular moment as a symbolic gesture designed to serve as "highly visible proof that the Justice Department is not in bed with big business...
...honor. Other times I ran them for the 1000 screaming girls at Wellesley, or for George McGovern, or for orange quarters. Often I thought of all those Wellesley girls sleeping as I ran the streets in Central Time, resting themselves so that they could cheer for me and thrust orange quarters my way. I guess it was Skiddy von Stade who said they continue to become great housewives and mothers. It's the sort of phenomenon that always leads me to dog it for the mile preceding Wellesley and then turn it on just before I reach the College...