Word: thrustingly
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...sliding briskly through space, need real-life perspective before they can impose themselves. Above all, there is a degree of risk implicit in large scale, and Pepper relishes it: the springing cantilever that seems about to topple but does not, the aggressive sharpness of edges (maquette the knife) and thrust of needle points...
...this time of cosmic crackup, a twelve-year-old girl named Emily is inexplicably thrust upon the narrator, as if the child represented one last responsibility in the old-fashioned sense of the word. Under the extreme pressures put upon her, the girl swiftly and somewhat surrealistically goes through many of the phases and feelings of a woman's life in a relatively short period. The narrative, so far as there is one, describes Emily's odd, intense relationships with her new guardian, with her lover Gerald (a natural leader who founds a commune), and Hugo...
Basketball Dream. Though Ryan still suffers from control woes-he led the majors in walks for the past three seasons-he is now the compleat pitcher. By combining powerful leg thrust off the rubber with whip action in his arm, the 6-ft. 2-in., 198 lb. pitcher fires a fastball that, if anything, is fastest at the end of a game. When he doesn't want to throw smoke, he is not shy about switching to his curve or change-up, even when the count is 3 and 2. By that time batters are usually so intimidated that...
...began, the pound fell to its lowest level ever against the currencies of all Britain's major trading partners, down a disastrous 24.9% from the Smithsonian Agreement level of 1971. Any sharper decline would give the nation's already soaring inflation rate of 30% an explosive new thrust. Labor Cabinet members were warring openly over economic policy and the Common Market referendum, and a rash of strikes had slashed output in the automobile, rubber, tractor, aerospace and shipbuilding industries. Hopes that the Prime Minister might take an uncharacteristically firm grip on the situation were briefly raised when...
...have been unassertive," explains Psychologist Arthur Lange, who teaches a course to overcome the problem at the Counseling Center of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. "They have played the roles men and society have given them rather than seeking their own." Women's liberation, he points out, has thrust them into new roles without giving them the skills to play them...