Word: thrusting
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...Cannes, always a politically charged arena, the critics naturally read metaphors into the plot, especially the part involving the rise of Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) to ultimate power. A candidate thrust into the top seat after a military attack? Sounds like Spain after the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2003. A politician who is "scarred and disfigured" by his political enemies, yet survives to win the acclaim of his people? That's spookily like the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, now President of Ukraine (although the West sees him as a good guy). A leader who cements his command...
...There are always little things but I think the main thrust of policy has been the right one,” he says...
...pursuit of an adolescent crush, all it takes is a moment of courage, sometimes as simple as a hitting of “send” on an e-mail, to thrust your heart out in the open, to be stomped on or embraced in mutual passion and bliss. Win or lose at love, it is moments like these that make us feel truly alive...
...able to find sympathetic friends in 29 Garden Street. With the Union dorms under construction, the University had thrust some freshmen into temporary housing in the building across the street from the Registrar’s office. “29-G,” they called it. A group of black men who lived there came to be called the G-men. Ashong found himself often venturing out to 29-G, where he felt more at home...
Echoes from that hastily conceived summit have resounded down the years. The complaints of the various Soviet bosses have been similar, their pride so predictably fragile. Kennedy thrust at the core of the problem between the leaders when on an impulse he asked Khrushchev, "Do you ever admit you're wrong?" Surprised, Khrushchev clouded up, then angrily pointed out that in the 20th Party Congress he had made his famous speech attacking the Stalin regime. "Those weren't your mistakes," said Kennedy. For the first time Khrushchev had no rejoinder, but his eyes smoldered...