For one, they usually have dirt, grease and oil stuck under their fingernails, and they know the difference between a small block and a cinder block.

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People nearby heard her screams after the shaking stopped and removed the cinder blocks entrapping her by hand.

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By 7 a.m. all that remained of the building was a metal frame and some charred cinder blocks.

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And there he was at his desk in a cinder block room and it was like a prison cell.

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Stretched out before our slightly disbelieving eyes was the seven-mile-wide chasm that marks the top of the dormant volcano, dotted erratically with cinder cones and wide, barren lavascapes.

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They arrived at the Department of Health and Human Services, a giant cinder-block building that stands close to the United States Capitol, and found the mood on the sixth floor rather festive.

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According to Peter Thompson, a longtime coach and former official with IAAF, track and field's governing body, Quarrie felt he could more effectively build muscle and develop tendon elasticity on cinder.

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The Lovings were free to go home and live together, in a new cinder-block house Richard built himself.

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Holiday-makers scrambled down the cinder path, leapt into their boats and headed towards the island.

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Inside the hangarlike, cinder-block space, folding tables are piled with mountains of yarn, looming gear and books with titles like Knitting with Dog Hair.

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