The JSOC liaison, the military-police contingent, and several sailors placed the shrouded body on an open-air elevator, and rode down with it to the lower level, which functions as a hangar for airplanes.

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The South Street Seaport Museum's tall ships weathered the storm, but its mechanical systems escalator, elevator, heating and air conditioning were all knocked out.

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My own feeling of liberation as the plane took off from Nice airport headed for London could hardly have been bettered by that of poor Madame Lavisse as she stepped from her elevator prison and inhaled the fresh air of freedom.

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It travels through air vents and cracks in walls, along ventilation and elevator shafts, and up stairways.

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