Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clothing to her speech. And if her dad makes it into the White House, things will only get worse. Seventeen will publish a spread on 1600 Pennsylvania avenue's youngest resident; Sassy will run an interview and print every "like" and "um" Chelsea utters. She will be thrust headfirst into the role of American Spokesteen...
From then on, Catalans ran Catalunya, and Barcelona, for themselves. They were jealous of their independence and determined to sustain their own laws ; and language. From the 13th century through the 15th, their outward thrust created a Mediterranean trading empire that stretched from the coast of North Africa to the gates of Byzantium. With the money this brought home, a city grew: the greatest Spanish city of the Middle Ages. Even today the Barri Gotic, or Old City, of Barcelona, facing the port, contains in its winding alleys more functioning Gothic structures than any other such enclave in Europe...
...first spurt of renewal was in the Middle Ages, creating the Gothic city. Then came a slump, as the ascendancy of Castile and the shift of trade from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic thrust Barcelona into a 200-year depression, from which it began to recover by industrializing only at the end of the 18th century...
...relished the cut and thrust of negative campaigning more than the late Lee Atwater, who applied to politics the ancient military maxim: Know yourself, and know your enemy. As manager of George Bush's 1988 campaign, Atwater emphasized the role of what he called the "35 excellent nerds" in his Opposition Research, or "Oppo," unit. They pored through the political record of Michael Dukakis and dug up the emotional issues -- the Pledge of Allegiance, Willie Horton -- with which Bush battered his rival...
...brought to a painfully abrupt halt when the door of a parked automobile swung suddenly open, placing a steel wall directly in his path. The 19-year old managed to escape massive injury by dragging one skate sideways behind him to slow down and breaking the inevitable crash with thrust-forward arms...