Musacchio wore thin-soled shoes when she was a sprinter in high school without injury.

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Next in line was a man from Aleppo who had raised funds for Mr. Shehab Eddin's brigade, which fought in Aleppo's Salaheddin neighborhood for 14 days but withdrew last week after supplies wore thin.

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Then there is the outer-garment rule, intended to thwart someone somehow hiding contraband in a jacket.. I wore a thin cotton sweater on my flights back from rural Australia.

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Far Easterners intermingled with those who wore the craggy faces and thin, stylish, black-rimmed eyeglasses of the old country.

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Even now that her hair was thin and graying, she wore it in a single long braid down to her waist, like a young woman in the village.

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Each of us wore a lightweight pack, with a water supply fitted to a thin plastic tube to suck on while we ran.

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