In the haunting original footage, American soldiers offer him a cigarette, open his jacket to look for the wound and try to hoist him up.

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Having your jacket open and your tie exposed works best when you have no form or fit flaws.

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Still, the band's fortunes changed when My Morning Jacket's Jim James handpicked Dr. Dog to open for My Morning Jacket for its 2004 tour.

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While Wowereit talked from the stage, his shirt unbuttoned and his jacket open, people lined up at the sausage booth, where three SPD members sold the charred wurst stuffed into rolls for 1.50 euro each (at least one German complained that they were too charred).

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Open a lambskin bomber jacket and the inside is cashmere with silk-lined sleeves.

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He kept a single jacket-sleeve button open on the left, another open on the right.

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Thieves in Italy are known to use knives to slash open purses and even men's jacket pockets.

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Mr Brown, who wearing an open neck shirt, brown jumper, jacket and dark trousers, said the couple were "delighted" that Sarah was returning home.

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There is a nice, casual, friendly look to having your jacket unbuttoned and your tie out in the open.

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He won the US Open, Open and USPGA in 2000 to complete a career Grand Slam of all majors and then landed a second green jacket at the Masters the following April.

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