The two men only survived because Coxwell, whose limbs were also paralysed, used his teeth to pull the rope to vent hydrogen from the balloon.

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Darabont stays fixed in the store and lets the pull on the rope tell the story.

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Late on 26 October, he wrote an emotional letter to his US counterpart, President Kennedy, imploring him "not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war".

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Mr Galassi, an experienced wakeboarder, found that his hand became trapped in the rope that was to pull him along.

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It has a simple-to-move foot bar that lifts and clicks into place to reduce transition time between exercises, patent-pending collars on the springs to make them easier to grip when changing settings and a rope system that lets you adjust length with the pull of a lever.

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Singstad said he and others tied a rope to her feet and tried unsuccessfully to pull her free, and the snow shovel and small saw they had brought were no match for the thick ice.

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Gambhir dragged Broad through midwicket to the rope and then Yuvraj clubbed the same bowler for consecutive maximums - one a front-foot pull over long-on and the other a remarkable flat drive over the covers.

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