Word: thrustingly
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...debate, shielding herself from interviews and making the rounds of teas and kaffeeklatsches reciting a script of prepared cliches. When someone cracks the simplistic pattern, her pleasant, natural naivete congeals into frigid, wary courtesy. Yet her aversion to pornography, big government, welfarism, crime, dope and Ho Chi Minh has thrust the gamut of national issues into the campaign along with such peninsular problems as high taxes, education and the noise from San Francisco's airport, which is in the midst of San Mateo County's most densely populated area. Shirley is the odds-on favorite...
...effectiveness of the present leadership, and 5) the thrust, or lack of it, in Russia's foreign policy...
...space docking project could also be part of a Soviet effort toward orbiting the moon from a space platform circling the earth. All this is necessary because the Russians, so far, do not seem to have developed a vehicle-such as the U.S.'s Saturn 5 -with sufficient thrust to send up a complete exploration unit on a direct flight to the vicinity of the moon...
...what I sensed to be an overwhelming majority of the faculty. Apparently many in the majority saw in the demonstrators, not a loose band of frightened youngsters momentarily holding hands to stop what I still think is part of the real threat to intellectual freedom, but a potentially totalitarian thrust that deserved exemplary punishment. At the same time, shared liberal sentiments, together with a network of personal friendships that only a Namier could trace out, made it possible for private debate to continue. In private conversations some faculty members could say to old friends with very different views that...
PUSEY: I don't quite understand the thrust of the question. The policy hasn't changed. The students are free to demonstrate in an orderly fashion. The only issue is the use of force...