Word: thrustingly
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...Frenchman the order of priorities should not only be: Les Malgache avant le Kirghize, but also--more importantly--that the suffering inflicted upon the Kirghizes in the Soviet Union should not be used to justify those inflicted on the Malgaches in the French Empire. Herein lies the thrust of his "unsparing" and Olympian demolition of Camus who adopted a partisan Cold War attitude on these problems: In support of the absolute right to liberation of the Hungarians whilst denying such a right to the Algerians. Camus, in any event, has no need for illiterate defenders who, lacking his considerable abilities...
...University's ownership of Black Rock Forest in Cornwall, N.Y., part of which is needed by Consolidated Edison for a widely disputed power project, has thrust it into the uncommon position of being involved in an ecological crisis not of its own making. And it would seem that this is one situation which the University will eventually be forced to face...
...hangar near Barranquilla, Colombia, a team of Soviet technicians has been assembling a plane that looks like a small bullet with wings. The stubby little jet, known as the "Codling" to NATO plane spotters and as YAK-40 to its builders, is the leading edge of a Soviet thrust into Western aviation markets. The YAKs are coming...
...name. To invoke the street dialect, one can ask: nwafor, whafoah? Because he has been stung by my letter and with a flurry of auto-didact learning ("It is not that I believe with Tolstoy...") and some cheap polemic ("rigid cold war stance") he seeks to obscure the thrust of my query: What could you have learned in 10 days that was so extraordinary that you could share with your class on The Politics of Liberation...
...another startling thrust last month, the FTC proposed that broadcasters be required to give critics of commercials equal time to make counterclaims similar to antismoking ads. Conceivably this could lead to ecologists taking to the air to punch holes in auto and gasoline ads, chemists knocking down mouthwash promotions-and a flock of advertisers fleeing the home screen. The FTC has also called for companies using promotions that it deems deceptive to run "corrective" ads admitting the error. One such commercial is being broadcast for Profile Bread, which was touted by the Ted Bates Agency as a diet loaf, though...