Word: thrustingly
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...Vice President recalls in chilling clarity the bare arm of Roy Benavidez, belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor last year for heroism in Viet Nam. In Texas last week the former sergeant told him the scar came from a Vietnamese bayonet thrust...
...night, and as usual a crowd is stationed outside the stage door of Manhattan's Palace Theater. There are restraining barriers and a policeman or two, but they do not prevent pandemonium when she comes out. Autograph hounds demand her signature, and as her limousine pulls away, men thrust their cards through the window. "Give me a call, Raquel," says one pudgy fan with a wink. She smiles and passes his name on to her husband, Andre Weinfeld. "This one," she says, "is an accountant...
...suitable vantage points where he can glare sinisterly our into the orgiastic crowd. A technical virtuoso equal to Adrian Belew or Robert Fripp of King Crimson, he sends screeching feedback and other bizarre sounds blazing to the ceiling, rips off eclectic chord changes to brand in with the rhythmic thrust laid down by Burnham and Lee, and contributes his eerie, monotonic voice strategically. For his part. King writhes and oscillates madly like a maniacal giraffe at the center of the stage, his primitive, guttural, and thoroughly expressive voice bounding through the controlled disorder let loose by his bandmates. To watch...
...Iranians held the pumping station that feeds river water into the lake, but they were soon beaten back by an Iraqi counterattack. Once again in Iraqi hands, the pumps are pouring thousands of gallons into Fish Lake, thereby increasing the size of the water barrier against an enemy armored thrust...
...America that gave help to the Nazi Begin. America the warmonger . . . while the peaceful P.L.O. sought only to regain the land that was rightfully theirs, and so forth. He was a first-class haranguer, the colonel. He had the eyes for it and the fists. He could thrust his body forward like a cannon or draw back his chest in open innocence, a gesture embellished with a why-me? look. Just when you thought he was vulnerable to the point...