Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer.

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The occasional rotation briefly transforms the space into a kind of flashing, pulsating cement mixer.

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Mr Balkwell of Upminster was found in the cement mixer in suspicious circumstances, police said.

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The toy cement mixer is the origin of the religious feeling that has informed most of my adult life.

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Essex Police is to be sued over its investigation into the death of a man found with multiple injuries in a cement mixer.

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Five people have been arrested over the death of a 33-year-old man found with multiple injuries in a cement mixer at a farm in Essex in July 2002.

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Nor did it ever bother me that the striped drum itself was glued or nailed to the orange chassis of the cement mixer and could not be rotated (or even budged) by hand.

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It had a colored rope, with a yellow handle, and you held the handle and walked pulling the cement mixer behind you rather like a wagon, although it was nowhere near the size of a wagon.

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