Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leadership, Old Politics. All along, Rockefeller has sought the nomination through the opinion polls, rather than through the party chiefs, who have always distrusted him. Yet he has done little to boost himself in the public standing. Now he is seeking to mobilize a popular thrust that will force the delegates to accept...
Alluding to his harsh treatment of Bobby in recent months, including a brutal thrust in this month's Esquire, Murray Kempton was contrite. "Our politicians are just too vulnerable to be thought of in the old callous way," he wrote. "We must see them in life as we would in the shock of death when we would be conscious only of the good in them. The language of dismissal becomes horrible once you recognize the shadow of death over every public man. For I had forgotten, from being bitter about a temporary course of his, how much I liked...
...From both ends of the serving kitchen, scores of people pressed in. All order had dissolved with the first shots ("It sounded like dry wood snapping," said Dick Tuck of the Kennedy staff). The sounds of revelry churned into bewilderment, then horror and panic. A priest appeared, thrust a rosary into Kennedy's hands, which closed on it. Someone cried: "He doesn't need a priest, for God's sake, he needs a doctor!" The cleric was shoved aside. A hatless young policeman rushed in carrying a shotgun. "We don't need guns! We need a doctor...
...Socialists in Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's red-black Cabinet have provided the thrust for most of the Grand Coalition's major advances; Socialist ministers halted West Germany's first postwar recession, initiated a bold new foreign policy toward the East Bloc, and presented the first full-scale revision of Germany's outmoded penal code in a century. Ironically, Social Democrats got no thanks from the West German voters, who seem to give the credit for the Grand Coalition's successes to the Christian Democrats. In fact, by joining the government, the Social Democrats have sacrificed...
...Kennedy had a good deal of trouble getting his dreams across. Most of the nation's newspapers seemed more anxious to catch his occasional slips, to dwell on his so-called "ruthlessness," than to explain--or even just to analyze--the thrust of his campaign. In their zeal to discuss Joe McCarthy and wiretapping, editorial writers somehow forgot that Bob Kennedy defended the right of Americans to send material aid to North Vietnam and fought bills to cut back the Supreme Court's landmark criminal procedure decisions. They refused to admit that the Bob Kennedy who relentlessly exposed the costs...