Word: thrustingly
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...This new thrust, and the absence of any new Nixon upsurge, gave pollsters the feeling of a thin edge for Jack Kennedy as Election Day 1960 loomed three weeks away...
Asanuma stumbled, his huge face contorted in agony. The youth whirled, took a fresh grip on the sword, and made a second thrust into the left side of Asanuma's chest. As horrified onlookers grabbed the assassin, Asanuma wobbled, then collapsed. He was rushed in a police car to a nearby hospital, but he was dead on arrival...
...tractor train will head for the South Pole from Byrd Station in the Ellsworth Highland, exploring unknown mountains and marking the 800-mile route with bamboo poles thrust into the ice each 1/5 mile...
...after the other, the representatives of all nations assumed their positions, like figures from a child's geography book. Each was marked by his heritage and by the power of his own historical thrust. Each, by his ideological kinship or by his ostentatious neutralism, had a role to play in the world power struggle...
...style, or stance, of American Protestantism: 1) audacity, 2) intellectuality, 3) modernity. In each he finds a virtue and the defect of that virtue. By audacity, Father Weigel points out, he does not mean "a bullying spirit, much less rudeness." It consists rather of "a naive and energetic thrust forward from an idea sincerely conceived. From Luther's day onward, simplicity of soul and freedom of the spirit were always characteristic of the churches of the Reform." Liberal or fundamentalist, the Protestant derives an "enthusiastic assuredness" from his "unconcern for tradition." The virtue of this attitude is the tolerance...