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...cannot be flown without its entire tail fin, which helps stabilize the big craft, and can be flown only with great difficulty without the attached rudder, which is moved to alter the plane's heading, or horizontal direction. The pilot can vary the thrust of the engines and use ailerons, hinged sections of the plane's wings, to maintain altitude and make turns, although directional control is difficult...
...live. He explores the world and does good deeds where he can. Past stories follow him climbing Mount Everest, working to save a family farm and being hired out as the bodyguard of a paranoid rock star. Using the tropes of the superhero genre, where Concrete often finds himself thrust into life-or-death adventures, Chadwick weaves in broader themes of the environment and social issues, along with the humorous quotidian details of Concrete's life as a walking boulder, such as his difficulties with unsupportive furniture...
...never expected to become a center of media attention, but found himself thrust into the national spotlight several months after he assumed office...
...acclaimed debut akin to the Boss’s legendary Born to Run album, Stefanchik burst onto the scene in 2002 with a rookie campaign worthy of second team All-Ivy honors. Thrust immediately into the starting lineup, Stefanchik responded by hitting .365 and swiping 21 bags...
Glimpses of Offsay are sometimes difficult to catch at matches, mostly because he is constantly thrust underwater. But somehow, when it counted, Offsay pulled himself up and jackknifed the ball into the net, notching the most goals on the team...