Word: thrustingly
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...lovers' quarrels. On the surface, the two shows--a self-styled "political allegory with music" and an original drama about a suicidal writer--could hardly have less in common. But they share a propensity for mind games, whether political or emotional the audience is teased into involvement, then thrust back out by a line or a cadence or the twist of the plot...
Democracy and Distrust did more for Ely than thrust him into the legal limelight. It also prompted Stanford Law School in December to appoint the 42-year-old Ely its next dean. His recent scholastic credentials, in fact, were so overpowering that the vote of Stanford's appointments committee was unanimous--almost unheard of in a field as sharply divided intellectually as constitutional...
...Soviet-U.S. nuclear balance: The principal thrust of our nuclear doctrine has always been, and continues to be, retaliatory. We have concentrated on our ability to launch a second strike against their cities and industries if they were to attack us first. Soviet doctrine and deployments have been primarily ones of counterforce (the ability to destroy military targets). Counterforce suggests first strike rather than retaliation. The reason that we are now building up our own counterforce ability is not because we contemplate a first strike but because we are increasingly concerned that our traditional deterrent has ceased...
Support and interest gradually slipped prompting the drive for the new government that was originally slated for implementation this spring. The Assembly convened in the fall expecting it to be the body's last term but Faculty objections to guarantees of minority representation for the new government thrust the Assembly into existence for at least another semester
...middle-distance specialists matched each other stride for stride to the finish line, but Rowe thrust out his chest for the crucial hundredth of a second...