Word: thrusting
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...been ravaged by a six-year drought. With a little help from NATO friends, Washington must also extend the reach of the military civil-reconstruction teams into the mountainous provinces where they can disarm the warlords and build roads, schools and clinics. Armor-plated aid is needed to thrust into the southern and eastern regions where Taliban rebels find it easy to recruit Pashtun tribesmen who have received little relief from international agencies. Western diplomats in Kabul say that, at most, the Taliban, along with their allies al-Qaeda and renegade commander Gulbuddin Hek-matyar, are capable of harassing coalition...
...says something about the similarities between Bush and Kerry that both seemed to recognize--far sooner than most--that the 9/11 attacks had thrust the U.S. into a struggle of historic magnitude. But as this presidential campaign careers toward a photo finish, the result has come to hinge on the ways the two men have diverged since that fateful day. For Bush, the attacks were the catalyst for war not just against Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network but also against any state that harbored, sponsored or supported terrorists. Even more ambitiously, as National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice...
Naturally, this got me wondering about my cinematic soul mate (what was his name, was he better looking than me, etc.) But soon after, I was thrust into a period of monkish introspection. Randomness alone could not possibly account for such an odd episode. There must be some link, some pattern, binding my movie choices: The Insider, Quiz Show, Erin Brockovich...
Naturally, this got me wondering about my cinematic soul mate (what was his name, was he better looking than me, etc.) But soon after, I was thrust into a period of monkish introspection. Randomness alone could not possibly account for such an odd episode. There must be some link, some pattern, binding my movie choices: The Insider, Quiz Show, Erin Brockovich...
...Arlington, Mass. product certainly uses his size to dominate would-be blockers. But it is Ezekiel’s knack for tracking down opposing ballcarriers that has again thrust him into contention for the Buck Buchanan Award, presented annually to Division I-AA’s top defender...