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I would infer from what I have mentioned that perhaps I may have some gift of this kind, not that of being invulnerable, because experience has many times proved to me that I am of tender flesh and not at all impenetrable; nor that of being proof against enchantment, for I have already seen myself thrust into a cage, in which all the world would not have been able to confine me except by force of enchantments.

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It all began for him during World War II, when at age 17 he found himself thrust into a forged documents workshop.

Four little engines, 22 kilos thrust each, turbines, working with kerosene.

Chemical rockets provide too much thrust, too much push.

The reason, I think, is that the pensioners believe they've chosen to be pensioners, whereas the young unemployed feel it's been thrust upon them.

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