Word: thrusting
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...face G.I.s moving north. As soon as U.S. warplanes circled overhead, says eyewitness Mashan Shareef, the soldiers lost heart and bolted from their positions, but all five were killed in the bombing. Local residents buried them in shallow graves and hung their dog tags from sticks thrust into the mounds to identify them for searching relatives...
Musically, Elephant adheres to the band's simple formula. Meg plays drums, Jack sings over his alternately wailing and intimate guitar. There are a few bass chords and an organ thrown in, but it's minimalist rock with maximum thrust. Just skip the liner notes. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...when the Hanssen ordeal thrust his personal role as a spiritual leader into the public eye, it made sense that Bucciarelli would keep a low proifle. As talking heads debated whether clerical law should protect a Catholic priest from being interviewed by the FBI, Bucciarelli took refuge at Elmbrook, an Opus Dei center in Cambridge, where only one journalist dared seek him out (a pesky New York Times reporter whom Bucciarelli calls “courteous” despite his “uncalled-for” intrusion...
...Alerted by the reconnaissance as to where the next U.S. thrust would come, they came out in force to stop it. For a few minutes, it seemed that every window along the ridge was spitting out machinegun bullets. Hoping to keep collateral damage to a minimum, Battalion commander LTC Chris Hughes called on his TOWs to silence the enemy guns. The TOW is a wire guided anti-tank missile with a powerful blast, and those available to LTC Hughes' forces are fitted with the new ITAS sites that allow the user to see an enemy's trigger finger...
...remainder of the speech was no improvement. There was the general hectoring and finger-wagging - and I don't mean finger-wagging figuratively; the man literally thrust his finger at the camera. A man with Moore's sense of history has no excuse not to realize that makes him look like a crackpot dictator shouting a harangue from the balcony. And while his last line about Bush being in trouble because the Pope and the Dixie Chicks are against him was funny, it was funny because most people don't take the opinions of music groups seriously. Kind of like...