Word: thrusted
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...plunged his large, raw hands savagely into the freshly turned soil, over and over. Dirt flew from the holes he dug and sullied the pale, delicately veined petals of her petunias.He reached into a pouch that hung from his belt, and his red fist emerged full of seeds. He thrust them into the soil, and she gasped in sudden fury. How dare he! He was planting squash. At her gasp, the new gardener turned and fixed a dark eye upon her. She could feel the heat from its glance and immediately sensed the evil of the heat. He lazily drew...
...allow foreign corporations a share in the deepwater reserves in the Gulf of Mexico, which may hold as much as 50 billion barrels. Nor will the trans-nationals be able to build and run refineries on Mexican soil as Calderon proposed in his bill filed in April. The thrust of the new law approved Tuesday is simply to allow government oil monopoly Pemex to subcontract foreign companies to explore and drill in specific parts of Mexico. Furthermore, crucial clauses allow Pemex to be able pay those companies by performance...
...Black Watch soldiers don't hate war; they hate the war they've been thrust into, in which their traditions mean nothing, the enemy can't be understood, and--the final insult and the cause of much controversy in Scotland--their unit is broken up. "It takes 300 years to build an army that's admired and respected around the world," an officer says. "But it only takes two years pissing about in the desert in the biggest Western foreign policy disaster ever to f___ it up completely." The result, after an hour and 50 minutes with these proud, profane...
However, Dale herself has been thrust into the Crimson spotlight lately. Though she did not play in her first two seasons at Harvard, Dale has come up big for her team in covering for an injured Mann...
...Carlos, an alumnus of Brown’s improv comedy troupe “Improvidence,” says he agrees with the thrust of Trojan’s cause and was glad to come back to Harvard to do stand-up and distribute condoms. “I don’t know if it’s the economy or something, but people are just hoarding them,” Carlos says. “The weirdest thing was, MIT didn’t want...