At first glance, Hagelin seems a wisp, hardly built for the rigors of an NHL campaign.

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The lists clung on thanks to a dusty wisp of tape or a lick of long-dried glue.

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The device comes with three adjustable modes: 3G Router Mode, WISP Client Router Mode, and Access Point Mode.

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Luda had a sudden urge to reach over and touch the thin wisp of hair that stuck to his forehead.

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We finally got crystalline skies with barely a wisp of cloud.

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Hamidullah played with his wisp of facial hair as he told of how his family has collected letters from district officials vouching for his identity as a farmer and not a Taliban fighter.

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There, he collapses backward as Stravinsky's final, bleating note cues the escape from within the proscenium space of a silky wisp of pure-white fabric, sending it like a comet into the auditorium ceiling.

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Yet, in the vain pursuit of a perfect intelligence organization, do not shake up intelligence in a way that does do harm - and in pursuit of this will-of-the-wisp, damage in particular those military capabilities that we alone possess.

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It was the one fixed point on a vacillating compass of relative morality until, one day, a tiny bird, the merest wisp of red plumage, tore away my comforting absolute and aligned me squarely with the NRA supporters, Second Amendment defenders and pro-gun crusaders I had reviled.

NEWSWEEK: Culture

In the wonkocracy, your human being is little more than a wisp of poetry, something that might be nice to whisper about tipsily over a plate of sea urchin foam, but something no professional would try to make room for in their work on policy.

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