Word: thrusting
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...graduate who has been out of college forty years will tell you there was far more intoxication among students in his day than now. The college comic of forty years ago was thrust under the door in the darkness of the night and burned by the janitor in the morning. The older generation was not angelic, but it rigorously suppressed or carefully concealed conditions which were not sanctioned by its code. Its goodness consisted largely in restraint and repression...
This spring’s Sexpressions — oops, sorry, Expressions show was not for the faint of heart (or for any individual with a heart condition, for that matter). Hips gyrate, sweaty bodies thrust up against each other, breathless...did we mention these are Harvard students? The dancers get hotter and heavier surrounded by a packed crowd than they probably do in the privacy of their dorm rooms...
...true that Summers’ public remarks on sciences, from his inaugural address to his speech at the announcement of the Broad Institute (a collaborative genomics project involving Harvard, MIT and the Whitehead Institute), have largely focused on molecular rather than evolutionary and whole-animal or plant biology. The thrust of the preliminary Allston plans, moreover, would support the belief that medicine and biotechnology are where Summers sees the University’s future...
After the popularity of the more functional stainless-steel look of the '80s and high-tech thrust of the '90s, it's only natural that the pendulum would swing back toward products with the mark of the human hand. A similar return to warmer, more emotional design occurred in the 1950s in response to the cold minimalism that dominated the preceding decades. "It's the old caveman thing. We like reflections of ourselves," says Moss. "We can never get too far away from the recognition in these objects of human involvement." For example, KitchenAid's new Pro Line is designed...
...question of interdisciplinary work always gets discussed in one form or another,” he says. “But I don’t think the thrust of our work has been on ways of actively promoting that...