But it is also slippery enough that when it rains, insects are thrust from the lid into the clutches of the pitcher.
The alignment of a mark on the inside of the skull, a wound on a vertebra, and the smaller of two wounds on the base of the neck suggest he was killed by a weapon that was thrust from the base of his neck into his head, researchers said.
Bianca Nicholas and Alex Larke have been in Vienna for the past week, and BBC News followed them to find out what it is like to be thrust, from nowhere, into the gaze of Europe's showbiz media.
Now Mr. Geithner, youthful president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Treasury secretary, will be thrust from go-between to the head of the table.
"To be thrust from being on holiday one minute into the middle of an international media storm was very, very difficult.
He said: "To be thrust from being on holiday one minute into the middle of an international media storm, and how to cope with that, was very, very difficult".
The Titans' free safety was thrust from his special-teams role onto center stage when he was forced to fill in for Marcus Robertson, the veteran who broke his left ankle in last week's conference championship game.
In one 24-hour period this week, a Mexican immigrant family in New York was thrust from daily routine into tragedy, and from obscurity into the glare of a news media frenzy.
At 21, Collette was thrust from suburban normality in Sydney to a life of champagne, celebrity and first-class air travel.
When the rudder is turned so that one side is more exposed to the force of the water flowing past it than the other side, the stern will be thrust away from the side that the rudder is on and the boat will swerve from its original course.
