Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hazards for the President's reelection. Having spent the last several years assuring the public that his government would Vietnamize the war and withdraw, Nixon felt obliged to renew the air war against the North Vietnamese to contain their attack. Though the initial stage of the Communist thrust was a tactical success, so far the South Vietnamese have held fairly firm. If they continue to do so, Vietnamization will be proved and Nixon's policy vindicated-to his benefit in November...
...owes his fame to the accident that grave robbers never looted his tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. It remained intact until Nov. 26,1922, when an English archaeologist named Howard Carter chipped through a door at the end of a rubble-filled passage and thrust a candle into the darkness beyond. "Do you see anything?" asked Lord Carnarvon, his partner. "Yes, wonderful things," Carter stuttered...
...give performances that stand out in the excellent supporting cast. Director David Wheeler stages the play without a pretention of proscenium--as if it were in his living room--and after 60 productions with the Theatre Company it might as well be. Set designer John Thornton has divided the thrust stage with a diagonal ramp into an upper and lower platform--everything from marching squads to jungle fights and a Saigon saloon fit on it so it must be good...
Recalling the widely discussed Club of Rome report (TIME, Jan. 24), which predicted that the present thrust of economic and population expansion would end in disaster within the next century, Train emphasized the "fundamental validity" of the doubts that have been raised about the desirability of continued growth. He picked out several areas for special scrutiny, not least the present distribution of income. President Nixon himself had said in a State of the Union message that Americans should seek quality, not quantity, in their lives. Still, Train thought his remarks "might make some waves" in the White House. The question...
...onetime Pillsbury executive, Maryland Congressman and Republican national committee chairman, Morton, now 57, has proved an able administrator. His first priority was to attempt to tighten up the elephantine, 70,000-employee department. He also brought in bright young management talent. "Our thrust hasn't been in dramatic statements," Morton maintains, "but rather to create the administrative means of getting things done...