Word: thrusting
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...identity of the original ShuttleGirl silhouette, with her hips thrust to the side and her fingers running through her hair, was kept under wraps to generate excitement about the site...
...world's best-kept secret," Fellowship old-timers like to say. Since 1937, the group's 3,000 paid and 45,000 volunteer missionaries have been diligently teaching, preaching and expanding with one simple goal: persuading small children to become born again. Now the organization has thrust itself in the spotlight by fighting all the way to the Supreme Court for the official right to do so in public schools. The court's decision, expected any day now, will help define just how far religious groups can go in using schools as a mission field...
...bits so it can tell when it is being touched. Via an Ethernet port in the neck, you can trigger audio samplings like "Oooooh, baby." McMullen walks over to another doll and flips a switch. An electric motor purrs and the doll begins to grind its hips with enough thrust to silence even Captain Kirk's constant demands for more...
...beavering away on their own powerful new video-game console, the Xbox. Partly because Microsoft is the new kid on this particular block, its approach to publicity--it's dropping $500 million this year on Xbox advertising--is a little different. The staff here can't wait to thrust a green-and-black Xbox into your hands, show off dozens of cool games--and loudly taunt the game spooks up the road. "Let's face it, Nintendo's system is for kids," says Robbie Bach, Xbox's gruff-voiced team leader. "We're for sophisticated gamers. I don't know...
...gold record (his 21st). And in his duet with Sinatra, he teaches Young Blue Eyes a thing or two about the ease of musical and movie-star mastery. "Well, Did You Evah," an old Cole Porter tune dusted off for the occasion, is a clever thrust-and-parry duet, and Crosby effortlessly gets in the best jabs. In one bridge he ends the phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark "bu-bu-bu-bu-bum." When Sinatra sing-snarls, "Don't dig that kind a croonin', chum," Crosby speaks his response with a withering vagueness, "You must...