We all got in a half circle and sang to each other for a couple of hours.

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The wedding photos told their own story: Rose looking pert and joyous in a white half-circle hat, with a big coat hiding the bump because she'd fallen pregnant some months before, while George was in a bad suit twiddling his fingers, and with his eyes elsewhere.

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Like the yin-yang symbol, each half of the circle embraces some of its opposite.

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Mr Wolfson's most famous skill was to spin full circle up to half a dozen times as he came in on a big wave, a manoeuvre logically known as a 360.

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At the center of the room is a circle of paired mannequins in which one half of each duo wears a '70s ensemble from Westwood-McLaren while the other wears a subsequent couture "take" on that ensemble.

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Smith gave them the lead just before the half hour when she latched on to a pass into the circle and fired home.

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People here will spend a half hour picking through bad LPs left on a brownstone stoop, or circle the block endlessly, hoping to spy on-street parking.

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Richard Li needs HKT for its half-a million ISP customers, for its fiber optic cables that circle every narrow Hong Kong alley and for some of its broadband ventures, like Star TV.

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For long stretches the game resembled half-court basketball, with goalkeeper Manuel Neuer occasionally sneaking into the midfield circle, perhaps out of boredom.

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The goal came a half-minute after Sullivan was set up for a one-timer in the left circle, but his shot went just wide.

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