Word: thrusting
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Just out of her final year of high school, Gunther was thrust into perhaps the biggest pressure position on the soccer field--in goal. Making things even hairier were the shoes into which Gunther was stepping...
...voluntary," he asserted, because undergraduates wouldn't feel the same strong allegiance to a House they were forced to join as they would to one that they picked. Without that sense of loyalty, the willingness to partake in a shared life would vanish and the students would again be thrust into the utter individualism of the Eliot years...
...nonpartisan American Bankruptcy Institute, found that only 3.6% of Chapter 7 debtors would be able to pay more. "The vast majority belong in that chapter," the study stressed. "They have too little income after necessary expenses to repay unsecured debt. It is vital, therefore, that no undue burdens be thrust on that needy majority in order to flush out a small minority of abusers." The amount that might be collected: less than $1 billion...
...Winklers in this film are basically decent people. When they make their money, it really doesn't change them. They are who they are and it comes out with less inhibition. They don't feel the need to circumscribe themselves or censor themselves. At the end, the comic thrust of the story dictates that they go back to where they started - that's all I cared about. But it would never be that the Winklers make their money and then Frenchy turns into a louse - as my wife, she was always nice, but she has her weakness...
...parents was written. And one need only survey the delightful absurdity of letters included in the Collected Works of men worthy of such collections to recognize what we're missing. Take, for instance, a short letter from the Liberty Fund edition of the correspondence of Adam Smith. The main thrust of the letter from an 18-year-old Smith to his mother becomes apparent in its second and final paragraph: "In my Last Letter I desir'd you to send some Stocking's, the sooner you send 'em the better...