Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Most supervisors did not even know that this decision had been thrust upon them because the statement from the personnel office came in the form of a news release. It was Sunday night- two days after it was issued, before the University made any effort to transmit its decision to the supervisors...
Fairbank, in the question-and-answer period, appeared to agree with the thrust of this new argument. He derided "the general models that usually involve the whole world" and put in a "plug" for the study of limited geographical areas...
Even as he spoke, U.S. air cavalrymen thrust into Cambodia's Kompong Cham province, located inside a Communist-infested zone called "the Fishhook." Their mission: a strike at the Communist high command hidden in groups of heavy concrete bunkers at several points beyond the border. Farther south, troops of the South Vietnamese army (ARVN), aided by U.S. advisers, helicopters and medical teams, swept into another Communist stronghold known as "the Parrot's Beak," located only 35 miles from Saigon. U.S. planes, meanwhile, began bombing the three other sanctuaries. By week's end the two ground forces reported a combined enemy...
...reasons, and to do that he must earn a place in the home of the braves. To prove his prowess, Morgan takes the Sun Vow, a masochistic ritual in which he is hoisted twelve feet above the earth, dangling by blades thrust into his pectoral muscles. He wins Running Deer, and eventually his freedom, but not before a series of unnatural tragedies destroys much of the tribe and all of his new-found identity...
...certain that the employees will vote today to remain on strike, but if they do a new thrust is needed...