Word: thrustingly
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...Mark Knopfler, centrifugal force of Dire Straits, and bassist John Illsley are wandering the corridors of Warner Bros. Records in New York. They're on holiday from the making of Making Movies, their third album, recorded in a scant few weeks at Nassau's Compass Point studios. Coffee is thrust into their hands; radio stations phone incessantly, demanding over-the-phone interviews...
Robert Williams, another juror, said the jury did not believe any group had the right "to thrust its political beliefs on the citizens of the United States...
...problem, compounded by the fact that he started in April, far too late, was that Anderson necessarily had to run as an independent because he had no time to organize a third party, which would have given him a supporting framework. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Anderson was suddenly thrust into the arena and asked to play major league ball without a team and without preseason conditioning." Altering the metaphor, Campaign Director David Garth says, "It was like they gave us a moped and told us to race against two Maseratis. But I still think it wasn't that...
...Dept. of Justice filed its extradition request in September 1978 Chile's "state of emergency" still governed the regime's judicial processes. Under these conditions, Decree Law 1877 held even minimally defining characteristics of an independent judiciary hostage to the military executive's will. Contrary to the thrust of Ambassador Barros' remarks at the faculty club, it is impossible to regard the Chilean judiciary as an independent institution at the inception of the adjudicatory process which it supervised...
...sockets; his white mouth was gaping and within it, his teeth (still unconsumed), gleamed like beads. But worst of all, round his white neck was the knot of the white scarf (once black) with which he had been strangled! The burning quicklime, like the burning mind above it, had thrust up the knowledge of the crime...