He completed a third-round 68 with a magnificent birdie at the 18th, playing an awkward bunker shot and then sinking a 25-foot birdie putt.

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Annes, when he drove into a car park and then chipped onto the green before sinking a 30-footer for birdie.

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Old-timers Lee Trevino and Chi-Chi Rodriguez pop into mind with their comic patter and dramatic flair (Rodriquez was famous for his routine of waving his putter at the hole after sinking a putt and then thrusting it into an imaginary scabbard on his hip).

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He called 911 and they followed the police dispatcher's order to get out of the sinking single-engine plane, then "everything went blank, " Smidt said.

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Newspapers were being founded and sinking all the time in Rio, then a small but expanding city.

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What could be more foolish that sinking your emergency fund into stocks and then find that you need it and have to sell off your investment at a particularly bad time in the market?

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When the Titanic was sinking in 1912, its operator first sent out CQD and then SOS, alternating.

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Notice how bolts and moving parts and gears start out as smaller, less dominant parts of the machines, but then come to dominate it with massive parts until even the form of the particular machine itself becomes lost amid that sinking into parts that seem to grow larger around us.

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