Some, who had been there before, recounted hair-raising landings at the old Kai Tak airport.
This is a hair-raising story, but also, I think, a wishful fantasy that the children might die without crying.
This made Armstrong's victory safe and looked likely to leave the sprinters with a hair-raising dash to stage glory.
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But Dr Bensimon's work has certainly made the task of disentangling tiny molecular structures less hair-raising than it used to be.
So here are the numbers - and for Spain they are hair-raising.
For him, the aftermath of the Brighton bomb involved a hair-raising drive.
Your student may tell you about friends whose drinking habits scare you to death or talk about his or her own hair-raising adventures.
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"We were told stories that are absolutely hair-raising, " said Mark Potok, director of the law center's Intelligence Project and editor of the report.
What follows is a hair-raising escape involving an SUV and a freight train, after which Nick concocts the grand design that brings him 200 feet above midtown.
The most hair-raising, perhaps, is a purge of supposed felons from the voter rolls that denied political rights to thousands of innocent citizens, most of whom were African-American.
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Chernobyl tourist Ruben Solaz, who took the stunning gallery images above on a summer trip to the site in 2008, described his visit as a "very touching, hair-raising" experience.
Over the same period, with the odd hair-raising interruption, interest rates have fallen, tempting companies and governments to refinance expensive debt year after year, leading to a prolonged surge in bond issuance.
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With stock market losses since January a modest 4.5%, despite some hair-raising days, much of the upper middle class and those who have even more money in investments still have money to spend.
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What makes traffic in Lagos a hair-raising experience, though, is the aggression and impatience from motorists looking to close up every inch of space on the road, accompanied by the perpetual soundtrack of car horns.
In March, the sensationalist Debkafile Web site published a hair-raising report claiming that Hizbullah has raised five brigades - all trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps - whose mission is to invade northern Israel in the next war.
Horst Lenz, the 56-year-old head of the regional bomb-disposal squad tasked with defusing the devices Sunday, said the bomb is the largest among the hundreds of World War II-era bombs he has tackled since beginning his hair-raising career in 1984.
The case has brought increased scrutiny to the X Games, the combination of quirky, hair-raising events that were once pushed to the distant margins of televised sports but have in recent years been added to both Summer and Winter Olympic slates.
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