With that, Marin dropped his head in his cupped hands and appeared to place something in his mouth.

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They raised their cupped hands to ask for the salvation of those who died when the eight-storey Rana Plaza building came crashing down on 24 April.

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The wind picked up a little, I cupped two hands around my steaming mug and laughed: Ethiopian beans from a Los Angeles roaster at the far ends of the planet.

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Then he put both feet on the floor and leaned forward, elbows on the table, chin cupped in his hands.

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Someone laughed, but in a moment several passengers were up and banging on the doors and windows until a man in a uniform came down the ramp and peered in at us with his hands cupped at his temples.

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" Verizon's CFO, Fran Shammo, might've just as well made those comments with his hands firmly cupped over his ears, as the firm's chief number cruncher told attendees at today's Goldman Sachs investor conference, "Unlimited is just a word, it doesn't really mean anything.

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