Holiday-makers scrambled down the cinder path, leapt into their boats and headed towards the island.
The address Allied listed as its headquarters appeared abandoned, the long, gray cinder-block building bare inside.
He appears to be standing sentry in deep shadows in front of a cinder-block wall.
People nearby heard her screams after the shaking stopped and removed the cinder blocks entrapping her by hand.
By 7 a.m. all that remained of the building was a metal frame and some charred cinder blocks.
One night I sat on the patio contemplating the honeycomb of cinder block houses that filled the ravine.
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The Lovings were free to go home and live together, in a new cinder-block house Richard built himself.
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The tiny row houses, the gray cinder-block walls, seemed to stretch for miles.
And there he was at his desk in a cinder block room and it was like a prison cell.
When Savickas was three years old, his grandmother found him in her back yard, building a fort out of cinder blocks.
Inside the hangarlike, cinder-block space, folding tables are piled with mountains of yarn, looming gear and books with titles like Knitting with Dog Hair.
Stretched out before our slightly disbelieving eyes was the seven-mile-wide chasm that marks the top of the dormant volcano, dotted erratically with cinder cones and wide, barren lavascapes.
Wearing a baggy, navy corduroy suit brightened by a turquoise Little Bear tie, Hirsh, 51, is holding court in his cinder-block-walled office in a former munitions factory in Toronto.
Cinder blocks were scattered across the ground like children's toys.
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For one, they usually have dirt, grease and oil stuck under their fingernails, and they know the difference between a small block and a cinder block.
And when Jamaican sprinter Don Quarrie arrived at Southern Cal in the late 1960s, he eschewed the school's newly installed, top-of-the-line synthetic track in favor of an old cinder track.
According to Peter Thompson, a longtime coach and former official with IAAF, track and field's governing body, Quarrie felt he could more effectively build muscle and develop tendon elasticity on cinder.
They arrived at the Department of Health and Human Services, a giant cinder-block building that stands close to the United States Capitol, and found the mood on the sixth floor rather festive.
Two years after breaking that record, Smith would become the Olympic 200m champion amid well-documented controversy, but it could be argued that his 19.5, set on a cinder track, was an even greater performance.
Barcelona's Mobile World Congress may have formed the backbone for this week's news but there was also notable news elsewhere -- like the fact that Boston Dynamics' upgraded quadruped robot can now throw cinder blocks.
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Outside the cluster of cinder block structures that make up Kano's Infectious Diseases Hospital, hundreds of sick children are lined up, awaiting treatment from Doctors Without Borders, the nonprofit group, which has set up a tent on hospital grounds.
To prepare for the show, exhibit curator Paul Martineau spent several months plowing through 1, 200 boxes of prints in a cold cinder-block room at the Herb Ritts Foundation in Hollywood, looking for shots with the L.A.-bred photographer's signature style: glowing California light, bold shadows, bare skin and film-noir settings.
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