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There once was a prosperous lawyer A trust-laden corporate Tom Sawyer The thrust of his life, Was not to his wife, But to law, a partner much coyer...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Partners In Rhyme | 3/16/1974 | See Source »

Rutledge, after dropping his first three bouts in the preliminaries, stormed back to sweep his last nine, to tie for second in the second pool of action and thrust himself into contention for the individual sabre title...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Rutledge Edged Out of Sabre Finals | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

True, that terror subsided after 1956, when, by Khrushchev's decree, millions were freed from the giant "archipelago" of prisons and camps run by "Gulag," the Central Corrective Labor Camp Administration. But the significance of Gulag lies in its thrust into the present?and future?of the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Solzhenitsyn: An Artist Becomes an | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...serious discrepancies between Dean's testimony and the White House summary, however: 1) that Nixon added "That we can't do" to the discussion of silence money, and 2) that he declared that "We can't offer clemency to anybody." These points provide significant conflicts. The thrust of Dean's testimony was that Nixon had raised no objection to these cover-up activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Drive to Discredit Dean | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...unpleasant?" a female admirer once asked James McNeill Whistler. "My dear, I will tell you a secret," the cocky 5-ft. 4-in. American painter replied. "Early in life I made the discovery that if one is delightful, one has to thrust the world away to keep from being bored to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother's Boy | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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