So, for example, the winner of the most-beat-up-bike contest would get a new bike.
In the capital Harare, lines of beat-up cars stretched for blocks outside gasoline stations.
He started Baker Hosiery with nothing but a beat-up old knitting machine and some yarn.
And it's not luxury he drives a beat-up Subaru wagon with 95, 000 miles on it.
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And we had a beat-up piano in the corner, and I'd play after a fashion, while he played.
The physical setting, usually urban, can be spare, maybe a bit beat-up, something out of a Raymond Chandler novel.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the first prototype emerged from a "beat-up old typing table" that she found in a flea market.
He was carrying a beat-up and bulging old leather diary with a painted, hand-tooled relief of a horse on its cover.
But the aging, beat-up Phillies don't seem quite as imposing this year.
Beat-up shares in Chinese paper producers may be poised to rise in the second half of 2012, Northeastern Securities of Jilin said in a research report on Saturday.
At a pool near a covered bridge on the East Branch, Charlie and I once ran across two old men wearing beat-up rubber waders and stringy, woolen wading socks.
Social media is abuzz with memes mimicking North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, with one joking that he is worried about "Guam bombs, " a popular term for beat-up used cars on Guam.
Instead, Rivera and Pettitte will open the year as lonely icons, trying to build a team from disparate parts and squeeze one more run out of what's left of this tired, beat-up crew.
Rightly or wrongly, the mortgage industry took the brunt of the blame for the Great Recession, and well-meaning politicians began to write laws that brought some unintended consequences to an already beat-up industry.
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Drivers rev the motors of their beat-up vehicles, shouting in Chinese and Mongol for passengers to board for a 300-yard drive to the Chinese immigration center and then another few miles to the Mongolian equivalent.
So then you decide you buy a new computer for your kid going off to college or you finally trade in that old, beat-up car you got, and so businesses then, they have more profits.
Full of kids, dogs and golf clubs, it is prosperous and unremarkable, except for details like the beat-up cracker box brimming with the household pot stash and the note on the fridge that reads: "Gretchen called: Probation!"
The flaky, moldy moon was also advancing, sailing between the skyscrapers, pulled by the naked girls, and behind it came a line of beat-up cars and skeletons of trucks, amid a silent crowd that was gradually increasing in size.
Though a beat-up guitar like Blackie derives most of its value from its celebrity provenance, says Keane, many of the instruments in the sale are estimated at approximately the price they'd bring without having been owned by a rock legend.
When Ben Berg turned 16 back in 1992, he got a curious birthday gift: A beat-up 1972 Dodge Sportsman Royal Van that once belonged to The Melvins, the iconic sludge-metal act that played a major role in the evolution of what became known as grunge.
Then the beat-up pendant arrived in the mail, leaving Mann to marvel at its journey and recall his own through the village near Rethel, France, where his outfit had dug in for a few days' rest and traded Spam and cigarettes for fresh eggs with two young women in a farmhouse nearby.
One such edge case was Fighting is Magic, a fan-made 2D beat-em-up in the style of Street Fighter using the cast of Friendship is Magic.
In the one-player Story Mode, you take control of one of the three bouncers and engage in a cross between an RPG and an old beat-em-up from the days of yore - think Double Dragon or Streets of Rage, only with experience points and much better graphics.
Up until that point I had had some old, beat up -- (laughter) -- used cars -- they were not state of the art.
Wilson beat Westwood 1-up in the third-place playoff.
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However, in a beat-em-up he has a fundamental problem, which is that his superpowers are either less powerful versions of Superman powers (strength, tough skin) or hard to implement as other than special attacks (fish telepathy).
Along with beat-em-up fans, Injustice is aiming at comic book enthusiasts eager to step into the thighboots of their favorite character (and Aquaman), and these power moves, along with the special attacks, do a fine job of giving the player the sense of being, if not a DC superhero, then a credibly amped-up NetherRealm version of them.
South Africa, who were tied with England at the top of the standings, beat Australia 24-10 to set up a semi-final with Samoa, who beat Argentina 15-12.
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