• The car was rock steady at 130mph, and with modifications to keep its nose down was good for 150mph.

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  • We want to fly nose-down, explains United President John Edwardson, referring to loading up the front seats with more first-class and business-class travelers.

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  • But with his own plane in a near-vertical, nose-down dive, the pilot and his crew had little time to think about the fate of the Chinese pilot.

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  • If there are problems, the patient can be fed by mouth, by a tube going into the nose and down to the stomach, or directly into the stomach.

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  • Pilkington said the plane was flying low, with its nose up and tail down.

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  • Three-year-old Mohammed Ali(ph) arrived here so weak that he could only be fed through a tube down his nose.

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  • Maybe Rauch would look down his nose at the work we do.

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  • Although there were times when I looked down my nose at him, I now have come to a greater appreciation of his view.

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  • It has the reek of the black-frocked missionary sniffing down his nose at the primitives animism without ever wondering if his own wine-and-a-cracker deity might not be just as phony as the numinous spirits of the riverbeds and pine forests.

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  • You can swipe through images of up to four at time, slide the specs up and down your nose, favorite ones you like, change colors, share choices with your friends, and then pick up to four the company will ship to you to try on for real at home.

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  • He looked up to discover that he had bent down the hollow nose needle at a twenty-degree angle.

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  • He unlatched the gate, they pushed it open enough to slip in, nose to tail, trotted down the path to the shed door.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Broken Shore'

  • Mr. GRAVES: I'm sure that good Jack, with that great Irish face and a slightly out of place nose, must be looking down from heaven and then smiling.

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  • There's Williams, wearing his clown nose and in full sugar-gush, staring down as a small child's hand reaches up to squeeze his melancholy nose.

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  • It's perfect for dabbing on the nose, lips and cheeks before swishing down a piste.

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  • "It doesn't look like it made quite the splash it did last year, " said Jaime Arbona, who watched the keynote on video before wandering down to the show to nose around the booths.

    FORBES: Jobs Fails To Wow At Macworld

  • The face also contains a secret lever that makes the wall swing open to reveal a snug bedroom with an extra-long full-size Murphy bed that folds down when you pull the nose ring of another Mayan sculpture this one of a maternity goddess (hmmmm).

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  • The snow is really assaulting the windshield as I head for the Louisville junction, the dog turning tight circles in the back, then dropping down into a ball and tucking her nose into her tail, resigning herself to yet another hundred miles of bleak highway.

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  • The idea is to touch down on the main wheels, not the nose.

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  • Looking down on the nearby Chrysler Building and the nose of the Flatiron Building was unreal, like Google Earth or tilt-shift photography jumping into reality.

    BBC: At 80, the Empire State Building strikes back

  • The Carlton boss's coup in snatching the licence for London weekday television from under the nose of Thames TV boss Richard Dunn, was largely down to his knack of knowing just how to pitch a deal.

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  • Jewelry designer Jennifer Fisher, a Southern California transplant to New York, said that a sleek down parka from the brand Finger in the Nose has become a classic in her two kids' closets, and in her gift-giving repertoire.

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  • Craning our necks to see the front of our train nose out of a tunnel as the back of it enters, down below we spot the Trans-Canada Highway, laid on top of the original Big Hill track bed.

    BBC: The wonders of Canada by rail

  • To succeed, he will have to travel some 700 miles in temperatures cold enough to freeze the fluid in his nose and eyes, pulling the equivalent of two Sumo wrestlers up and down steep ridges while trying to avoid lethal gaps in the ice.

    BBC: Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Up the Pole

  • Far better to hold your nose and hope Chafee wins another term, than to watch Steve Laffey go down to defeat against former Democratic state Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse.

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  • Even then, his descriptions of the players' idiosyncrasies are apt and observant: the way Andy Pettitte pulls down his visor and brings his glove up to the bridge of his nose before a pitch, or the way Derek Jeter lifts his right hand before batting, as if he were asking the crowd for silence before taking his stance.

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  • Each is lined with tissue called the mucosa, which secretes mucus continuously along hairy cells called cilia and out a tiny passageway called an ostium, through which the mucus drains into the nasal cavity and down the back of the throat, where it is swallowed (unless you blow your nose).

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  • The women say he punched Sieman in the face -- breaking her nose and cheekbone -- and lifted Stramaglia her off the ground by her hair, then threw her down and kicked her.

    CNN: Showbuzz

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