Significantly, just a month before the fire, his daughter Caroline made a cry for help.

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They set up generators, powered up laptops and started moving visual images across oceans in a cry for help.

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Into the vacuum leapt Lula, after he concluded that a telephone call from the president asking for advice was really a cry for help.

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"I think it was a cry for help, " she added.

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And some small but significant percentage of this group is going to take a one-way slide to the bottom, where the compulsion to use their smart phones is so strong that they can only hope their batteries last long enough to text a cry for help.

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As pop songs go, "Drink to Moving On" is practically perfect, with a catchy little call throughout: It's an emotional yelp that falls somewhere between a scream and a plaintive cry for help, as a sweet-sounding bass bubbles behind repetitive guitar strumming.

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The women's escape and rescue began with a frenzied cry for help.

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It's a terrifying thought, but science suggests that when under attack, plants cry for help.

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