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The two men only survived because Coxwell, whose limbs were also paralysed, used his teeth to pull the rope to vent hydrogen from the balloon.
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Darabont stays fixed in the store and lets the pull on the rope tell the story.
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Mr Galassi, an experienced wakeboarder, found that his hand became trapped in the rope that was to pull him along.
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Late on 26 October, he wrote an emotional letter to his US counterpart, President Kennedy, imploring him "not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war".
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She has torn off her outer garments, which she twines into a rope so that she can pull him to safety.
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She has no mast, no sails, no complicated bits of rope that you have to pull to make her move or turn.
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The Philippine vessels withdrew, but China has refused to pull out its three surveillance ships and remove a rope blocking Filipino fishermen from a Scarborough lagoon.
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Singstad said he and others tied a rope to her feet and tried unsuccessfully to pull her free, and the snow shovel and small saw they had brought were no match for the thick ice.
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It has a simple-to-move foot bar that lifts and clicks into place to reduce transition time between exercises, patent-pending collars on the springs to make them easier to grip when changing settings and a rope system that lets you adjust length with the pull of a lever.
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Gambhir dragged Broad through midwicket to the rope and then Yuvraj clubbed the same bowler for consecutive maximums - one a front-foot pull over long-on and the other a remarkable flat drive over the covers.
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To stretch Mr Rogoff's metaphor, the rope East Asia extends to America is not a noose but a tow-line, which will gradually pull Asian economies towards greater prosperity.
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