People huddled on rooftops Sunday waiting on army helicopters to pluck them to safety.
She felt a reckless impulse to pluck the seed out, though she could not risk the intimacy.
He decided to teach squirrel monkeys to pluck small pieces of food from inside a plastic cup.
Perhaps it should establish a fund to pluck some of its less adept patrons from life-or-death circumstances.
People like Lim's office mate huddled on rooftops Sunday waiting on army helicopters to pluck them to safety.
The year is 1989, the place is West Germany, and the pickings could not be riper, or easier to pluck.
In the evening, members and guests are invited to pluck a stogie from the walk-in humidor in the grand plantation house.
To pluck them from the ocean, Bezos used Remotely Operated Vehicles (underwater drones) operated from a command ship on the surface.
If the Americans agree to pluck more of the feathers from their farmers' beds, the next move will fall to the Europeans.
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The Siamese crocodile, which used to pluck picnicking princesses off the riverbank, according to French explorers, has already disappeared from the main river.
At CES, expect to see digital picture frames that use wi-fi to pluck photos from e-mail and RSS feeds without going through a personal computer.
Mr Bygott said the sea was "quite mountainous" and the lifeboat crew had "certainly" saved their lives, rowing over the rocks to pluck them to safety.
The Wildcats then followed up with another try in quick succession, Leo-Latu stretching to pluck a Ben Jeffries kick out of the air and touch down.
Just to pluck one example from what is an embarrassing array of unnecessary upgrades: I still have the first ski pack I ever purchased, in the 1990s.
The new drugs target very specific subsets of patients with the disease and will come with gene tests to pluck out which patients are likely to respond.
With their whips in their teeth, the riders try to manoeuvre their mounts through the scrum of horses, leaning down among the stamping hooves to pluck the carcass from the ground.
The heavy lifting was then left to space station resident astronaut Susan Helms who used the station's new robot arm to pluck the Quest from the shuttle's cargo bay.
Ms. HOLIDAY: (Singing) Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, for the sun to rot, for the tree to drop.
Citigroup executives say it was Mr. Buiter's strong views that caused them to pluck him from academia in 2009, when he was a professor at the London School of Economics.
Once embryos are created by in-vitro fertilisation and still growing in the laboratory, it is possible to pluck a cell or two from them and use molecular probes to pinpoint defective genes.
However, Michalak found himself on the wrong side of Irish referee Peter Fitzgibbon when he attempted and failed to pluck a Wayne Evans pass out of the air one-handed as the line beckoned.
The art of taxation, Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83), the comptroller general of finances, told Louis XIV before that king's spending got really out of hand, is to pluck from the goose the most feathers with the least hissing.
Dirks showed that some of the immature-looking cells from his patients could form tumorlike clumps in the test tube, unlike most other cells from the tumors, but he didn't have a method to pluck out the stem cells.
We do get plenty of description on commands though, with some pretty thorough response tables and examples of "anchor text" -- something that the automated assistant tries to pluck from your ramblings in order to make sense of them.
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As Ian Ayres (my colleague in forbes columny) writes in his insightful and delightful Super Crunchers (Bantam 2007), the technologies for assembling and mining huge data sets have converged over the last couple of decades, and they give us remarkable new power to pluck the future out of the past.
Boiler shops are now going back to "pluck the chickens a second time, " according to Alaska state investigator Edward Watkins.
His journalists had to be brave, and one way to show their pluck was to survive working with Jim.
To compete with hand-picking, robot harvesters will need to twist, pluck, cut or suck produce from stems and handle it as gently as possible.
Whatever you think of the man's style, you've got to admire his pluck. (McQueen's, I mean.) As for Heller, you can't gainsay his knowledge of the subject.
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