Word: thrust
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Entering the program just a year before many of the top players graduated, the current senior class enjoyed only a short honeymoon before finding themselves thrust into key positions...
ONSTAGE, KEITH JARRETT belies his cerebral, prickly reputation. Swept up in the trancelike flow of his jazz improvisations, he levitates from the piano stool like Jerry Lee Lewis, head thrust back and howling with pleasure. Beneath his fluid fingers, the keyboard ripples spontaneously, spinning out an endless series of riffs and variations, while his lyrical bassist, Gary Peacock, and elegant drummer, Jack DeJohnette, match him move for move. Heads nod approvingly as the melody is handed off from instrument to instrument, three men doing what they love best: making music with hand and heart...
Still, it is useful for nonetymologists to learn that the F word may stem from the Germanic languages (for example, the Middle Dutch fokken, "to thrust, copulate with"); that the word found its way into print as early as the 1550s; and that it was James Joyce, Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence who first thrust it, as it were, into modern literature...
...main thrust is decentralization: Instead of letting school boards make major decisions, panels composed of parents, community members, teachers, principles and sometimes students make decision locally...
...match was tied 2-2 after four games, which thrust the teams into a fifth game, under rally point scoring. Harvard (9-6, 2-2 Ivy) was down 9-5 until Cornell made a few mistakes, giving Harvard the momentum to surge ahead and win 15-13. For the match-winning point, freshman outside hitter, Melissa Forcum pounded an unreturnable spike...