The walls and the ceiling had numerous holes, doors banged into other doors and there was abandoned furniture, including large metal safes, in every room.

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Yet, another story says the hunters smelled gas, banged a pipe into the ground and then lit it.

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They chanted anti-Wall Street slogans and banged drums as they wandered into the night.

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My father banged through the door and into the yard, and, like a pair of long underwear sucked off a clothesline by a tornado, was carried away by the melee.

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My angry guide disappeared into an unlit room, banged around for a minute, and suddenly switched on an ancient Soviet movie projector, using the light to illuminate the projection booth of what had been Vale's only movie theater.

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The Mumbai premiere had all the makings of a scene from a Bollywood blockbuster: Musicians banged on traditional Indian drums as the cast and crew broke into dance on the red carpet in recognition of the 10 Academy Award nominations the film received Thursday.

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" McDermott banged a schoolhouse Everett spinet piano (with a recently revived low A key) into submission in another Morton classic, "Grandpa's Spells.

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Here, he plays Martin Harris, an American botany professor who arrives with his young wife (January Jones) for a biotech conference in Berlin, loses his passport, gets banged on the head in a car accident, and emerges from a four-day coma into a hostile world.

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