With 30% firmer springs and more aggressive low-speed damping, the C30 Polestar is capable of putting its shoulder down and cornering fast and flat around country sweepers, generating respectable lateral grip.

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Those summers were when David felt most fully himself, trotting alongside Priscilla down the rocky streets, climbing at midnight up the slender path beside the stream to a large flat stone that they considered their own, reclining there shoulder to shoulder, talking without thinking as stars fell overhead.

NEWYORKER: Or Else

In addition, some vehicles have broken down due to running out of fuel and flat batteries and they also need to be recovered from the hard shoulder, they said.

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He struggled to breathe against the dextrorotated pressure of his ribs, stretching farther and farther to the side, very early one morning, until he felt a flat pop in the upper part of his back and then pain beyond naming somewhere between his shoulder blade and spine.

NEWYORKER: Backbone

After shooting the PCSO over his shoulder from a range of about 2m (6ft), Cook went back to his flat a short distance away.

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