• And the town, historically reliant on industry and crisscrossed by pockmarked streets, isn't especially affluent either.

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  • During the rationed 1940s they grew bored with driving 35mph on bald tires and pockmarked highways.

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  • The old man and his son felt their faces, which were indeed a bit pockmarked.

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  • The 1970s had been a decade pockmarked by rising rates of inflation and unemployment.

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  • Houses are pockmarked with bullet holes and it is remarkable no residents were hurt, our correspondent says.

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  • The 10.5 km trail threads past starkly eroded limestone slopes, rock pinnacles and cliffs pockmarked with caves.

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  • On my trip, I noticed how many bottles, candy wrappers, cigarette butts and other signs of man pockmarked the land.

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  • But, watched by an estimated 500m people on television, the astronauts who stepped onto the moon's pockmarked surface were American.

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  • That immense forest is pockmarked in places by isolated lighter-green squares, where the trees have been felled and oil palm planted.

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  • He has black hair, brown eyes and a severely pockmarked right cheek.

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  • The red metal security door that is used to close up the stall in the evenings is pockmarked with dozens of bullet holes.

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  • Symphonic but light-footed, the band's Shut Up I Am Dreaming evokes pockmarked landscapes, as colorful melodies wander down blind alleys and over broken bridges.

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  • Produced water does not biodegrade, and when Donziger and his colleagues visited the Oriente they discovered that hundreds of oily pools pockmarked the rain forest.

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  • The first movie showcases one end of the asteroid pockmarked by craters, sculpted by linear grooves and littered with boulders about 50 meters (165 feet) across.

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  • We conquered the 15% grade of the treacherous Via Mala (literally, "bad road"), set in a narrow gorge pockmarked by fallen boulders, without so much as a whinny.

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  • While the Bells are using their massive cash flows to pare down their debt loads, their balance sheets continue to be pockmarked with a number of unsightly blemishes.

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  • The motley cast of characters includes a dodgy, pockmarked contractor (Mark Lee), a hopelessly unhip coffee-shop boy (Henry Thia) and tattooed loan sharks, all of them relentlessly chasing money.

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  • At the inn, soft lighting, dark wood, earth-toned upholstery and beaten metal adorn the guest rooms, lobby and bar area, while the pockmarked cement in the front entryway emulates ancient flagstone.

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  • They pointed toward a blackboard, pockmarked with gaping holes.

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  • Both planets are pockmarked by craters caused by meteorites.

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  • California, where cities like Los Angeles are pockmarked with old oil wells, is drawing up new fracking regulations, while New York state has a moratorium on fracking while the government revises its regulations.

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  • Once it was on the ground, the moon was a pockmarked, sandy boulder, so dull and opaque that it was incredible to think that it had once illuminated the sky with its shining reflection.

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  • Founded after Hurricane Katrina, a nonprofit network of photographers, graphic artists and hobbyists has repaired more than 9, 000 pictures discolored by floods, pockmarked by debris, speckled by mold and otherwise damaged by disasters in recent years.

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  • The buildings aren't pockmarked with bullet holes.

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  • "The smugglers were trying to pick these up before daylight, but there was probably an agent in the area, " Adame said, explaining why the smugglers on the U.S. side never collected the canisters that pockmarked the tilled land.

    CNN: Mexican police nab drug-launching cannon near border

  • In the city of Karlovac, the capital of the Karlovac region and the former front line of the war, many of the buildings remain pockmarked by bullets, and the damage intensifies as you reach the outlying villages that had been taken by Serbian forces.

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  • The flashpoint involving the two men followed a match that was pockmarked by red cards for Rangers players Steven Whittaker, Madjid Bougherra and El Hadji Diouf, 13 cautions and a series of angry scenes in the Celtic Park technical areas and tunnel.

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  • We felt a few bumps and jolts over pockmarked pavement, due largely we suspect to the standard run-flat tires (which by nature are stiffer than conventional rubber), but by the same token the ride is never floaty or bouncy, which will certainly spare rear-seat riders from ever feeling seasick in this land yacht.

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