Skipper Brad Fittler then raced over straight from a scrum to close the gap to just eight points and, in a nailbiting finish, centre Russell Richardson had a try ruled out for putting his left hand on the dead-ball line before grounding the ball.

BBC: New Zealand 24-22 Australia

He held a small photograph of his dead colleague, Ahad, in his trembling left hand.

NPR: Afghan Villagers Flee Their Homes, Blame US Drones

One day in mid-December, there was a knock at the kitchen-house door and he found Chance Poxley standing in the tall dead grass, wearing a small tweed fedora, shading his eyes with one hand.

NEWYORKER: Idols

Vintage clothes For a long time, image-conscious Italians wouldn't be seen dead in second-hand clothes.

CNN: The story

Cleveland's voucher scheme has led to the founding of new schools, free from the dead hand of school-board bureaucracy, offering poor families a real increase in choice (see article).

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Nasdaq looked like a dead skunk in the road at 2250 six weeks ago, when this column said a bottom was at hand, so buy up.

FORBES: Digital Rules

She cupped the wasps in her hand, the window frame shuddering beside her, as the storm sneaked in a draft to stir the dead wings, their stiffened weightlessness.

NEWYORKER: Wasps