Word: thrusting
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...team counts on him in games we need to win,” said Walsh after the 2-1 victory thrust Harvard into the Ivy League Championships, “and he came through for us with a tremendous effort...
Sutton Foster was just an understudy too when the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie was preparing its pre-Broadway run last year in La Jolla, Calif. But the leading lady got dumped, and Foster, at the last minute, was thrust into the role. Last week the show opened on Broadway, and Foster was basking in the limelight. As the small-town girl who comes to New York City in the 1920s, she's got the full package: girlish gawkiness and Broadway brass, the legs and the lungs. Foster is a big reason the show is just about the cutest thing...
...study Cruz y Ortiz is to examine contrasts. The thrust of their work has both encompassed large public projects and smaller private housing developments. They have embraced both pedestrian and vehicular transport concerns and created spaces housing everything from a library’s hush to a stadium’s roar. They also have a penchant for layered flat planes that betray high, open air expanses. What unifies them all is an absorbing, vaguely structuralist style that manages to appear clean without being clinical...
...eventful as a totem pole. To satisfy zoning regulations that require upper stories to be set back to admit sunlight to the street, most architects provide a stair-step silhouette. Abraham produced a diagonal slope with angular overhangs, like teeth on a harpoon. His upper stories simultaneously thrust upward and avalanche down. Below that, the director's office is housed in a glass box that juts from the zinc facade...
...post-doctoral fellow in seismology in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, said the cause of Saturday’s earthquake is difficult to determine since the majority of the faults in the Northeast are inactive. But he said his preliminary calculations show the quake to be a thrust earthquake caused by compressional stresses...