Word: thrust
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Late last year, John Strugnell, a Harvard Divinity School professor, was thrust into the spotlight when he was removed as chief of the team editing the Dead Sea Scrolls after making anti-Semitic remarks to an Israeli newspaper. In the recent issue of the Biblibcal Archaeological Review, there appears a glib bio of Strugnell under the heading "Major Players" in the Scroll project. Strangely enough, the author can't seem to decide whether he loves or hates the man he describes as a manic-depressive, alcoholic anti-Semite...
...main thrust of gender applications in labor economics research in the past has looked at the effects of working women on families, says Alice Kessler-Harris, professor of history and director of women's studies at Rutgers University...
...home is his castle, even if home is a park bench or a cardboard box under a highway bridge. And a man's possessions, like his home, are protected by the Constitution from unlawful searches. That was the thrust of a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling last week that ordered a new trial for David Mooney, a homeless man charged with murder because his property -- a duffel bag and a box stashed under a ramp leading onto Interstate 91 in New Haven -- had been searched by police without a warrant. "His duffel bag was luggage," observes criminal-law professor Lloyd Weinreb...
...degrees F), while the undersurface only a few inches away never gets hotter than 140 degrees C (280 degrees F), making the plane hard to detect by enemy infrared sensors. The slightly smaller Lockheed YF-22 may be more maneuverable, thanks, in part, to nozzles that direct the thrust of the engines' exhaust this way and that. "Thrust vectoring," as this is called, helps push the plane through sharp turns at very high and very low speeds and lets it fly with its nose up at a sharp angle, enabling the pilot to direct weapons from almost any position...
Harvard will need that scoring thrust to break through Cornell's stingy line of long-sticks anchored by 6-ft. senior Tom Morgan. Much like Harvard, the Big Red's defensive strength comes primarily in the cage. Junior netminder Tim Shea came in third in the Ivies in save percentage (57.0%) last year, right above Harvard's Chris Miller...