Word: thrusting
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...Khodorkovsky could be forgiven for feeling like he'd been thrust back into the Soviet gulag: Sentenced to eight years in a Siberian labor camp at Krasnokamensk, Khodorkovsky has been denied access to any intellectual activity. Access to books has been denied, and television is available only in the facility's recreation room, where other prisoners prefer watching soap operas. Khodorkovsky spends every day from 6 a.m. till 10 p.m. doing senseless manual labor and taking courses on glove-stitching. He is under constant monitoring by a team sent from Moscow of officials from the prisons department...
...gimmicks!" the Queen has told aides. "I am not an actress!" She wants the monarchy to be a focus for continuity and enduring patriotic values, which make instinctive sense to her. She was never a rebel: she venerated her father, a shy man with a stutter who was thrust into kingship by the abdication but mastered his task through hard work. During her wartime adolescence, the idea of obedience and doing one's duty for the greater good was the norm. She really meant it when she said at age 21 that "my whole life, whether it be long...
...overall thrust of the U.S. policy in the region is due almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and especially to the activities of the ‘Israel Lobby,’” the authors wrote in their introduction. “[No] lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest...
Mary Luce is an average-looking woman and a cancer survivor. Volunteering as a telephone operator for a suicide-prevention line, she is thrust into the world of vampires after a chance encounter with a scrawny mute runaway named John Matthew...
Last week’s release of previously unseen photographs and videotapes from the U.S. Army prison at Abu Ghraib has thrust the putrid details of the 2003 prisoner-abuse scandal there back into the global consciousness. The new images make many of the older ones look tame in comparison, depicting prisoners tortured with dogs, cells and hallways streaked with blood, a prisoner forced to perform self-sodomy, and the grizzled beaten body of a dead prisoner...