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In Hitler's own day, Churchill called him a "guttersniper"; Brecht parodied him in the character of Arturo Ui, a buffoonish thug implausibly thrust into power; and Neville Chamberlain--well, enough said about Mr. Chamberlain.
The broad thrust of their appeal calls for the setting up of a new agency, most commonly referred to as a ‘European Research Council’.
However , the overall thrust of the portion of the Nixon Library document that interprets Nixon's remarks on "Jewish Americans" is indeed to downplay Nixon's comic-book anti-Semitism:
He brought out a tattered paperback and thrust it at me, insisting that the volume was too important not to be passed on.
The assault was a failure, but it thrust into the limelight its young leader, Fidel Castro.