Upstairs they found Ms. DeJesus and Ms. Knight, who threw herself into the arms of one officer.

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She threw herself into her work, but at night she numbed herself with epic sessions of TV.

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She admits that she "barely knew where Hawaii's state capitol was" before she threw herself into the project.

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After his death, she threw herself into her work "to ease the pain".

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Mattila, the Finnish soprano who has given the Met many blazing performances over the past decade or so, threw herself into the melee with her customary fervor.

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Barbara Thomas Judge, 66, a corporate lawyer who did three years as an SEC commissioner in her mid-30s, threw herself into learning about nuclear energy after a headhunter recruited her 12 years ago to chair the audit committee of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority.

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