Word: thrusting
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...recent years has been the mini-pageant of movie skits in which famous actors and industry titans get up on a miniature stage in cheesy costumes to act out humorous little vignettes from the year's Best Picture nominees. The scripts are usually thin jokes, read from pages thrust into their hands as they go on stage. Many of the cracks are insider gags tailored for the glittering crowd. What it most resembles is the living room shows that six-year-olds put on for their parents and relatives. The real quality is not in the words but the charm...
That's the thrust of a report in last week's issue of Ergonomics in Design. It was prepared by researchers who took the trouble to test that "easy as 1, 2, 3" blood-sugar meter, which is supposed to let diabetes patients quickly check their blood-sugar levels. But what was advertised as a three-step process (prick your finger, squeeze a drop of blood on the test strip, wait for results) grew to 52 substeps by the time they got the thing working properly...
...Roger Bilham: What happened was a very important earthquake. Important in that it is the largest that's happened since geologists recognized that the Seattle region is one of the few places in the U.S. that could have a large thrust earthquake. Wednesday, a very small patch slipped in the collisional boundary south of Seattle...
...shorter than I expected but larger than life, lit from within. Politely but directly ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH queried, "Why do you want to write about my husband? He's very much out of fashion, you know"--even before we sat down. "I'm an ordinary person who was thrust into extraordinary circumstances," she told me, describing her role in the epochal events in her life--her marriage to the most famous man on earth, the "Crime of the Century," blazing air routes, the debate over America's isolationism. Because she considered no experience complete until she had written about...
...didn't think election law would be a hot topic," Armini says. "She just got thrust into the spotlight...