Word: thrustingly
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...that the balance has shifted in the oil negotiations, the thrust of imperialism will shift to seek out Arab gold and dollars. Because the Arabs have gained a measure of control over their natural resources, the struggle to win control over the industrial development that will ensue has begun...
...thrust of the women's attack on the still-to-be implemented plan was that the procedures set forth for increasing the percentages of women, blacks and other minorities were fuzzy and inadequate. They proposed no implementation until Harvard's $250,000 plan has gone back to the drawing board...
Enduring that curious flat state of humid thoughtlessness, there boiled within me enough fires of ambition and blind striving to exit the state but there was never enough heat to forge a steel hard version of truth. Perhaps the thrust of my departure propelled me high enough to see what I had been so charmed by and had blindly pursued in the name of fame and love of God as but the echo of an echo. The culture I aspired to see clearly would always by drowned by initial perceptions. Sunk beneath the latest translation and the re-re-echo...
...role has become that of a spurned suitor who continues courting in order to save face. "How can the U.S. say it is defending the Middle East against Communism when we told the Russians to get out in 1972?" asks a high-ranking Egyptian official. The main thrust of Egyptian policy is toward improving relations with the U.S.-in return for American pressure on Israel...
HARVEY COX'S Seduction of the Spirit is properly not a book at all but a manifesto and a scattering of blueprints. Its thrust: Marx was only half-right. Religion is not always and everywhere or merely an opiate of the masses. Though it often serves as a "sedative administered without consent," religion is also sometimes the only way a defeated culture can preserve its history. An oppressed people's religion becomes a way to stave off extinction and absorption. Through ritual and symbol, collective remembrance and testimony, it endures as a sanctuary for the impulse and energies of liberation...