Word: thrusted
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...system. "Once, I liked to run in the fields near my village," she begins softly. The propaganda official steps in. "But now, she prefers weight-lifting," he says. "Her goal is to become a star athlete and make China proud." Cloud looks down at her callused hands, which can thrust 35 kg into the air but are now shaking from nerves. "I prefer weight-lifting now," she says. "I want to become a star athlete and make China proud...
...members of Steppenwolf, and the company is currently rehearsing Letts' next play, Superior Donuts. It's a lighter, less grandiose work, he says. "I started it before August was performed. But I knew August was really big, and I wanted a smaller gesture." Now that August: Osage County has thrust him into the very front ranks of American dramatists, however, nothing from Tracy Letts can be considered small again...
...stubborn silence and watch the opportunity pass by. To quote one group of tenured professors who have thrown their support behind the fasters. “We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callously that it is incapable of matching the moral thrust of divestiture fasters...
...course, typically spout the same macho rhetoric on Cuba because they believe it's essential to winning Florida, which in turn is essential to winning the White House. But the state - especially the growth of its non-Cuban Latino community, which is often irritated by all the attention thrust on Cuba - has changed more than McCain and the G.O.P. seem to realize. The Democrats, of course, haven't been much more clued in themselves in recent years. But Obama has already signaled that when he gives his own speech in Miami, he's likely to challenge at least bits...
...alumni might be a little upset, but I think on the whole the team has done a great job this year,” said captain and second varsity seven-seat Pat Mulcahy said. “In that sense, a lot of responsibility in that sense has been thrust on a very young group, and it’s tough to step up like that without that much upper class leadership and I think they’ve done an outstanding...