Monteriggioni, like San Gimignano, has a sense that the men in doublet and hose, ladies in wimples, peasants in jerkins and knights on horseback have just disappeared through the gates - and might return at any minute.
We've seen in the past pit-stop errors having a huge effect on the outcome of the race - think Felipe Massa leaving the pits with his fuel hose attached in Singapore last season - so you can see why practice makes perfect.
Our travel highlights included hotel stays during which she remained awake until sunrise and a road trip diaper blowout so spectacular, we had to hose her down in a McDonald's parking lot.
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They may get tangled in their support hose on the field and injure themselves.
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Undeterred, the folks at Amazon gave the Kindle 1 a hose blast of marketing late in 2007.
Meanwhile, the company is developing a military version (more horsepower, longer hose?) that might be useful in piracy interdiction.
And I used to like being out in the sun with the water hose and the sprinklers.
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His support team desperately fought to pull off the trailing hose but by the time they had succeeded he was in 18th spot and dead last.
Massa's botched pitstop at the Singapore Grand Prix a fortnight ago, which saw him drive down the pitlane with the fuel hose still attached to his car, was the latest in a long line of errors.
The hose on the suction sampler looks much like the hose on your vacuum cleaner, and perhaps they were hiding in the corrugations.
Rubens Barrichello finished sixth for a more-competitive-than-expected Honda, but was excluded for leaving the pits when the lights were red following a dramatic final pit stop in which he was waved away with the fuel hose still attached.
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As well as cutting up and burning the hose on an open fire, she washed and replaced bed covers in the room where her husband was poisoned.
Lillehei solved that problem with cross-circulation, in which a donor, linked to the patient by plastic hose and a simple pump, acted as a living heart-lung machine.
Waterproof in up to 8 inches of water and easy to clean with a hose.
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In recent months the company recalled 572, 000 Honda Accords for power steering hose issues and 268, 000 CR-Vs for faulty power window switches and 820, 000 Civic and Pilot models for potential low-beam headlamp failures.
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Morris had a supply of automobile hose clamps and random strips of rubber lying on one of the dusty shelves he had built in the half-basement, not far from where they would have to be used most of the time.
Crews used breathing apparatus, hose reels and a thermal imaging camera to tackle the fire, which is thought to have started in the communal hallway.
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In fact, coconut water tastes a bit metallic, like water that comes from a garden hose.
But the chapter marks a significant departure from the Freakonomists' modus operandi: it contains little in the way of economics, other than a brief discussion of externalities and the observation that the hose system would be much cheaper than building an entirely new low-carbon energy infrastructure for the world.
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