Word: thrust
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...1930s farmers had made plowing an art form and were competing in county fairs. Herb Plambeck, an enterprising farm reporter and colleague of Ronald Reagan's at Des Moines' station WHO, brought the contestants together in a national match that thrust plowing into power politics. In 1948 Harry Truman headed for Dexter, Iowa, where 100,000 people had come to witness the meet. Truman gave the 80th Congress hell, delightedly kicked some newly turned clods of earth as if they were Republicans, and came away with a huge grin, convinced that the reception he got from the dirt farmers meant...
...colleagues and driven away lying on the backseat of a car to avoid clusters of young men positioned around intersections hurling rocks and setting fires. Photographer Roger Sandler, roaming through a newly burned-out section of the city's Crenshaw district, had the business end of a pistol suddenly thrust in his face by one of a gang of teenagers bristling with weapons. Just as he lowered his camera, certain that they would fire, they quickly jumped back into their car and drove off. Jim Willwerth was watching a group of looters empty a sporting-goods store when one punched...
...grabbed the silver release ripcord--a Dshaped handle about belly level on my left harness strap--and pulled down as I screamed, "Pull!" I threw it away from me--using both arms--then went into the hard arch position: pelvis thrust out, arms, legs and head thrown back, and started counting again...
...will make Harvard a center of what is seenas a major thrust in current biological concerns,"he said...
...French naturalist Henri Mouhot came upon an enchanting temple buried in the jungle of western Cambodia. It thrust spires of finely carved sandstone into the sky, and its open galleries held an artistic treasure: more than a mile of delicate bas-relief stone panels. "It is grander than anything left us by Greece and Rome," wrote Mouhot in his diary...