• But the trail, in this case, is intriguing: Someone lifted a heavy manhole cover and climbed down several feet to cut the cables.

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  • One time, when she was on the verge of menopause, Nita had teased Rich into making love up there not on the ties, of course, but on the narrow grass verge beside them and they had climbed down inordinately pleased with themselves.

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  • She took my hand and we climbed to the blacktop road and looked down it in one direction and then looked down it in the other direction.

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  • He climbed down and spent more than three hours swaying from a harness about 65 feet above the Hudson.

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  • He pushed me down and climbed on top of me.

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  • I'd checked into the beguiling Maison Souvannaphoum, walked down the road, and climbed 355 steps up Mount Phousi, the temple-crowned hill in the center of town.

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  • When his tower was high enough that he could touch his upraised elbow to the ceiling, he went all the way down to the bottom and climbed all the way back up to the top carrying a long stone roughly the size of his leg.

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  • For the moment, at least, it's both, as was clear when McCain climbed back onto his plane and headed down to South Carolina, where he was met at 3 a.m. in an airport hangar by hundreds of college kids and the earsplitting techno sounds of Fat Boy Slim.

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  • On one side are the people who believe that the first proto-birds climbed into trees and that, as they glided down, they figured out how to flap.

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  • Sullivan told jurors how he climbed down ladders to the basement, and then had to crawl through the rubble to reach Daina Bradley, who was lying in about 6 inches of water in the smoky darkness.

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  • The plane roared down the tarmac, lifted off smoothly, and climbed sharply to three hundred feet.

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  • The Dow climbed more than 400% from 41 to 194 and then back down to 92, before stabilizing and resuming a relatively steady climb during World War II.

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  • In the midst of unrest at the University of Manouba, a young woman watched outraged as a zealot tore down her country's flag, and she then courageously climbed the flagpole to restore the flag to its rightful place, winning the plaudits of her countrymen.

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  • During the uprising, growth plummeted from over 5% down in 2010 to 1.8% last year and only climbed slightly to 2.6% in the latest quarter ending in September.

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  • Francis even climbed down from the vehicle, kissed a woman in the crowd and chatted briefly with her, and another man in the crowd leaned over a barrier to squeeze the pontiff on a shoulder an unheard of familiarity in the previous pontificate of the reserved Benedict XVI.

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  • An SMU officer then saw a man who had climbed into a crane on a construction site at the school "and was yelling down at the officers, " Lawrence said.

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  • Gold rallied in the morning and the yen has climbed so quickly that Japan's finance minister is trying to talk it down.

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  • In China, where Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index climbed 0.6% to 22251.15 and the mainland's Shanghai Composite Index ended down 0.1% at 2326.71, investors were digesting a string of earnings reports from large Chinese companies.

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  • Ms Massai said many people had climbed onto roofs and up trees to escape the rising water, then fallen or hurt themselves as they came down.

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