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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.
Showed up the first day ready to make coffee and photocopies, but was paired with this righteous, deeply inspired attorney named Jeff Purcell, who thrust me onto the front lines from the very first day.
Well that's rocket science; that's the mathematical expression for the thrust created by a rocket.
The most horrifying and agonizing part of the whole experience was we were making decisions after decisions after decisions that were being thrust upon us.
And these were being thrust upon us by the doctors.
He remembered that was a perfectly safe sort of gantry system, perfectly safe rocket launch, because he's sitting in a rocket that has, like, a hundred thousand pounds of thrust, built by the lowest bidder.
I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours, and the perception was through the polarization of that terrible event.
Technology itself seemed to possess what Alvin Toffler in 1970 called "accelerative thrust."
So here it appears as if it's the viewer that's sort of instigating the sense of order among the panels, but it could also be the other way around, that the panels are so stuck within their preconditioned behaviors that they sort of thrust the viewer with the role of a tyrant.
What gets us to do this, what get us to forward thrust more is to value the near win.
And pulse-system yield: we're looking at 20-kiloton yield for an effective thrust of 10 million newtons.
Five seconds is all it took from everything being fine to our world going black as the windows were thrust underwater, and that five seconds goes quickly.
So that was the first sort of thrust, from the mid-1700s, into a subject which is now called algebraic topology.
I was thrust into a world I didn't quite know how to function in.
So anytime I would enter a restroom, I would thrust out my chest to show my womanly parts, and try to be as non-threatening as possible.
This thrust my mother, my sister and I out of the relative comfort of middle-class life and into the almost constant struggle to make ends meet.
One of them was that early on in their career, they had been thrust into a leadership role that required them to make decisions that had serious consequences.
A victim of circumstance caught up in a war, cruelly thrust upon him by the cruel circumstances of the time.
Those who control the flow and thrust of history are considered world-makers who own and master time.
So today, white people continue to control the flow and thrust of history, while too often treating black people as though we are merely taking up space to which we are not entitled.
When the jogging craze hit the U.S. in the 1970s, the treadmill was thrust back into the limelight as an easy and convenient way to improve aerobic fitness, and lose unwanted pounds, which, to be fair, it's pretty good at doing.
CA: Four times the thrust of the biggest rocket humanity ever created before.
In units of 747, a 747 is only about a quarter of a million pounds of thrust, so for every 10 million pounds of thrust, there's 40 747s.
So this would be the thrust equivalent of 120 747s, with all engines blazing.
You get an idea of the thrust here, when I try to hold them horizontally and somewhat fail.
That's around 50 kilos of thrust there.
The model of one on each leg and two on each arm, on paper, that was enough thrust.
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