Word: thrusting
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...change in the Tigers’ (1-4, 1-1) team dynamic over the past season, dating back to the last contest between these two squads, has thrust Szymanski into the offensive spotlight...
...plane was full of G forces that pushed me back into my deep blue leather (but surprisingly narrow) seat. I strained to see the disappearing English countryside out a window that's no bigger than a salad plate. Passengers struggled to hold their video cameras steady while the plane thrust upward...
Apparently not. Or, apparently, he doesn’t care. The only thing that has thrust Clark into Moore’s good graces and into the national spotlight is the strange—yet compelling fact—that, despite being a high-ranking military official, he opposed the war in Iraq. The fact that Clark actually has flip-flopped on the issue of whether or not he would’ve voted for a war in Iraq doesn’t seem to concern Moore, or the American Left, all that much. What Moore cares about is that...
...just a reflection of a shaky economy that has weakened sales and sent once high-end designers like Isaac Mizrahi to Target to hawk $25 silk shirts. Off the runway, the hand wringing was over the corporatization of fashion. Cliquey social critics complained that the mainstream thrust of fashion was diluting its cool factor. And on the runways, the demands of the shows' sponsors were making for some strange scenarios...
...millions of words in testimony, documents and e-mails he received in evidence - and instantly put on his website - have painted a gripping picture of political hardball, blame shifting and bad judgment inside Tony Blair's government and the BBC. Heroes were in short supply. Gilligan defended the basic thrust of his reporting, but admitted he had overstated the case against Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications chief, for "sexing up" the September dossier on Iraq's weapons. BBC managers, reeling under a ferocious assault from Campbell, looked hapless as they described a stout defense of Gilligan mounted without checking...