My father, bent over at the waist the way he was, looked like a crane there to either lift me up with its hook or wreck me with its heavy ball.
My surfboard was quickly ripped out from underneath me, its leash yanking me into the wave's violent washing-machine wake.
It knocked me to the ground with its trunk, it rolled me, punched me, put a tusk through my left thigh, gored it, then ripped it out sideways.
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Lucky for me, however, Congress is doing its best to bail me out and give my riled up commenters somewhere else to direct their employment tax-related ire.
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These collisions with the world taught me its substance and laws as well as my own.
She tells me its especially important for her since she comes from a family of people who make their living on farms.
At his Chinese restaurant in south Delhi, one of the employees sprays a little at the floor to show me its efficacy.
To me its sad that to those children standing at Thirsk its the first time they have seen a steam loco at full steam ahead.
In 2009, when TED awarded me its TED prize and the opportunity to make a wish to change the world - -a wish they would help me fulfil l -- I thought of a mirror.
About 20 feet down the garden was a Puma as the dogs started barking it looked towards me its eyes glowing it then jumped over the fence to the next door garden setting off their security light.
During a trip last week to Chongqing, businesspeople from different fields told me its economy is basically healthy, though uncertainty hangs over the leadership jobs at some state-owned companies, the global business outlook and efforts by China to restructure its own economy.
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In mobile, email, its newly acquired About.me service and in its new video chat service, the company is trying to erase your memories of AOL dial-up CDs in your mailbox.
But the statistical probabilities associated with the screening model that pointed me to MHP, its fundamentals, and the special-situation breakup story, leave me comfortable with MHP.
We changed into scrubs and Alleyn took me through the sixteen operating rooms to show me the laparoscopy suite, with its flat-screen video monitors, the hybrid operating room with built-in imaging equipment, the surgical robot for minimally invasive robotic surgery.
Facebook could never be that partner because its whole business model is predicated on me being an acquisition for its purposes.
"They've all been really nice to me, its hard to talk about it, " she said.
It thrilled me with its "proper car" feel and I also learnt to forgive it for its shortcomings.
Power and Associates told me that its own polling comes to similar conclusions.
In an e-mail Standard Chartered tells me that its belief on the dollar amount under scrutiny has not changed.
All of that is amazing, but there's something almost intangible about The Rite of Spring that drew me under its spell.
And so it's not just me and its not just Craig, it's at least a bunch of us who've had these experiences.
Del Toro, who considers Gill-man the apex of man-in-a-suit design, informed me that its creator was Milicent Patrick, a former Disney animator.
But now I pray that America will keep me within its embrace.
Two features of the MK2 stand out to me from its predecessor.
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While all the cheekiest cars dazzle in the streets during a heavy bout of Los Angeles traffic, day after day the Accord struck me for its practical qualities.
He explained to me that its extraordinary fluid effects were worked in the hardest of woods - he was proud of his technical feat - before telling me his story.
Its selling point is supposed to be that it can shoot video, which is nice, but what thrilled me was its ability to take pictures in low light with an amazing crispness.
Since this has been the status quo for two years now, I suspect Google is paving the way for its Google Me social network, expected to launch later this year.
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"Given that MySpace is a bit on the outs in terms of popularity, it doesn't surprise me that its stuff doesn't 'scream' like YouTube's, which benefits from having the infrastructure of the all-powerful Google, " says Godskind.
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