Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emotional armor for the 1980s, it is also her best instrument of subversion. While other women are busy pointing fingers at one another for their family and career choices, Ehrenreich makes her case for working mothers by debunking, with the endearing sting of a suburban survivor, the guilt trips thrust upon them. Don't worry about missing your kid's "stages," she says, because "no self-respecting six-year-old wants to be reminded that she was once a fat little fool in a high chair...
...thrust," Wilson says, "has become less ideological and more pragmatic, more scientific and less...
...vigil on the front steps of the government building in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian Republic, suddenly burst into song. The anthem was an ancient call to battle, glorifying freedom as "the sweetest of words." As its haunting harmonies echoed down nearby Rustaveli Prospect, tens of thousands of Georgians thrust clenched fists into the air. One year ago to the day, on April 9, 1989, Soviet troops had broken up a peaceful demonstration on the very same spot with tanks, shovels and poison gas, killing 20 people. Last week residents gathered in the streets again -- but not just to mourn...
...because we don't think that worker could understand? The current thrust of Harvard's internationalization efforts are targeted towards the elite. In other countries, which are perhaps smaller and more dependent on the international community, almost everyone holds the attitude that they need the rest of the world to survive. The United States shares this need, but it is not something we like to admit...
...they are losses that resonate beyond the runway. Says writer Jonathan Moor, the biographer of designer Perry Ellis: "What is different about the fashion industry, compared to theater or film or music, is that the whole thrust of fashion is really under the influence of about ten major people in the world. Their ideas are the ideas that come down the runways at $10,000 a kick, which are within six months translated into something that comes out at J.C. Penney for $100. And those people are at risk...