Word: thrustingly
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...overall agreement on the central thrust, but there were sharp disagreements over the MX and deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe," said co-author Samuel P. Huntington, Dillon Professor of International Affairs...
...shoulder. At Auckland's Eden Park, Diana elicited squeals of delight from 35,000 schoolchildren when, with three Maori teenagers, she joined in the hongi, the traditional Polynesian greeting of pressing noses. Prince Charles, meanwhile, was nearly relegated to the role of spear chucker. A native warrior thrust a ceremonial spear at him and asked if he came in peace. The prince quickly replied that...
...difficult to disagree with the thrust of Bok's indictment of the U.S. legal system. He argues correctly that the way this country does its justice is too expensive and too complicated, making the system unjust for those who cannot afford to take advantage of it. Bok's point is not new--in fact, it has been tossed about for more than 15 years--but a public restatement of the argument by the president of Harvard University and former Dean of its Law School, even though somewhat overdue, could reignite the issue with constructive results. It is also encouraging...
...stubborn silence and watch the opportunity pass by. To quote one group of tenured professors who have thrown their support behind the fasters. "We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callosly that it is incapable of matching the moral thrust of divestiture fasters...
...work was more staid, more modest, less conspicuously "inventive." Painting, he considered, was "a branch of natural philosophy, of which my pictures are but the experiments." From Nicholas Milliard's Elizabethan miniatures through Rupert Brooke's pastoral poetry, a deep love of the particulars of landscape, nose thrust in the hedgerow, has always been central to English culture. No wonder, then, that Constable's following is large and loyal. His landscape is just what the English feel nostalgic for as they dodge trucks on the bypass amid the billboards and concrete goosenecks. It is conservatism writ...