Word: outthrust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week seemed prototypical affluent Americans. Lawyers in town for the American Bar Association's annual meeting -some 8,000 strong-they conventioneered in determinedly conventional fashion. Black ties came out for a dinner dance complete with Bob Hope ("This would be a great place to get whiplash"). Outthrust hands took advantage of the boundless cordiality of Lewis Powell, former A.B.A. president, and clients might later be told, "I was chatting last summer with Justice Powell...
...continue to be prosecuted and forced to remain in exile? The question is one of the most difficult the country confronts as the bitter war winds to its conclusion. Until recently, even longtime opponents of the war have shied away from this emotionally charged issue. President Nixon, his chin outthrust, answered the question with one firm word-no-at a press conference in November. But with an end to the war in sight and an all-volunteer Army on the near horizon, the topic is gaining currency. Ohio's Republican Senator Robert Taft Jr., a Republican with impeccable credentials...
...ignominy or worse. The camp's doctor is busy assembling a harem of pseudo nurses. The camp's foundrymen are lured on to melt bronze by the promise of a bonus. They are cheated out of it. A doomed love blooms like a flower held in the outthrust hand of a tragic Charlie Chaplin...