Word: thrust
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Master Fisher wanted to spare these grade schoolers the sight of works like Wolf's "Untitled #7," a photograph of two nude men, one holding the other's not-quite-covered genitals. He thought "Untitled #4"--which depicts a naked woman arched backwards, her crotch thrust toward the camera lens--might no; be the most appropriate backdrop for Silly Sally the Clown. He had problems with Wolf's version of Michelangelo's "Pieta": two nude men aping the famous pose of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Jesus...
Boeing's projected aircraft would have a baseline design carrying more than 300 passengers, as well as a range of 5800 statute miles, flying at Mach 2.4 [1775 mph] at 60,000 feet [18 kilometers] with four engines each with 50,000 pounds of thrust, according to Harrison. The Concorde currently carries 100 passengers, and has a range of 4000 statute miles flying at Mach...
...Burma's military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council. He and his DEA bosses concluded there was no other way to hurt Burma's drug kingpins like Khun Sa, who has some 20,000 men organizing production and distribution routes. But that goal collided with the main thrust of U.S. policy. After the junta nullified an election and killed thousands of protesters, the U.S. cut off aid and trade privileges and then refused to send a new ambassador. Ever since, the State Department has tried to minimize its contacts with the junta...
...appears, was never in love with Diana. He claims to have entered the marriage under severe pressure from his father Prince Philip, who is depicted as a bully with a scathing tongue, easily capable, when Charles was a child, of reducing him to tears. In having a bride thrust upon him, Charles felt "ill used and impotent." His mother was remote and passive, usually leaving family matters to her husband. Along the way, institutions come in for criticism: Gordonstoun School -- picked, of course, by Philip -- was for Charles a hell of hazing and teasing. And the media never knew their...
Some writers are born with a theme, some acquire a theme, and some have a theme thrust upon them. But however writers come by it, their great subject provides a surge of intensity to their work that no other material can. The novels of Mona Simpson, for example, go electric as soon as she touches on the figure of a mother; Amy Tan's fiction reaches its heights the minute she turns to China. For Tim O'Brien, who deferred his admission as a graduate student at Harvard in order to serve in Vietnam, the elemental theme is his experience...