Word: thrustingly
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...briefly, North Vietnam-as well as the drastic escalation of air attacks all over Southeast Asia-the war has become very much an ingredient of Nixon-Kissinger policy. And it is a policy that originated not in the bowels of the Pentagon, not in an overweening bureaucracy's forward thrust, but in the clearly visible diplomatic ambitions of the President and his aides...
...thrust of his campaign, he said, is to get various committees and programs in Cambridge to coordinate their efforts to alleviate the drug problem. "I'm confused and shocked to see that the intellectual community-which wants to do something about drugs-is splintering itself when it should band together...
...film is, of course, not simple-minded. Jerome's behavior could probably be traced to Montaigne: "Vain glory and curiosity are the two scourges of our soul. The latter leads us to thrust our nose into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved...
...might easily have been met and thwarted. The strategy was dropped, however, when a German major, flying in a snowstorm, was forced down in Belgium with a full set of war plans that was seized by the Allies. The substitute plan sent General Heinz Guderian's spectacular armored thrust through the seemingly impassable Ardennes to catch the French near Sedan, a critically weak point in their defenses...
...irony of this particular case lies in the fact that the entire thrust of the procedure of sampling student and faculty views was aimed at determining only whether there was serious opposition to the obvious choice for the post...