Word: thrusting
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...Friday, Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, as co- sponsors, announced that they would soon invite the parties to a ninth round of talks in April. Israel and the Arab countries had been eager to resume anyway, but were further attracted by Christopher's promise to thrust the U.S. more deeply into the negotiations. The Palestinian negotiators felt similarly but have been losing popularity to Hamas; they held out for a face- saving Israeli concession. Christopher pressed Jerusalem to return the deportees faster and improve conditions in the occupied territories. Now if the Palestinians don't show...
...guys thrust into a tough situation, they've come through quite nicely," Sullivan said...
...stories that in 1981 the defeated Jimmy Carter, riding up Pennsylvania Avenue with Ronald Reagan, had not waved to the crowds. Bush was determined to avoid any hint of sourness. He waved spiritedly. Along the avenue, in the midst of the sea of adoring Clinton fans, was a sign thrust high, THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH. Clinton spied the placard first, pointed it out to Bush, and they laughed and waved together at the brave survivor...
...sadness is informed by real pain. McEntire has been through divorce and remarriage. She has known true catastrophe: in 1991 seven members of her band were killed in a plane crash. Tragedy, when absorbed and reflected on, can give an artist depth. Some artists seek it, others have it thrust upon them. It's the difference between martyrdom and masochism -- McEntire's scars are earned...
...Tijuana, watches illegal immigrants make the nighttime dash across the border, tours the old Spanish missions in California. At home in San Francisco he watches AIDS carve his friends to the bone. The epidemic brings northward a Latin preoccupation with death, but Rodriguez suspects that the greater cultural thrust is on the side of the U.S., "the more powerful broadcaster...