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As he gingerly takes his first step to get out of the middle of the road, the product takes effect on him, causing him to shake, rattle and jerk helplessly across the landscape, getting flattened by a huge boulder and almost falling off a narrow rocky arch in the process.
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They advanced in a line across the entrance hall to the stairway and up, with gingerly steps, towards the first landing.
Academic critics of the first half of the 20th century continued to approach The Country Wife gingerly, with frequent warnings about its " heartlessness ", even as they praised its keen social observation.
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Many players were also known to " dipsy-doodle " with the puck, or come out of their own zone " rather gingerly ".
# Continuing to maintain a firm hold on the staple, pull the entire staple gingerly out of the paper.
He removed his shoes and socks and gingerly stepped through shin-deep water as he debated whether to try to hit his ball out of the Barry Burn, which guards the 18th green.
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At 85 knots, the port engine began to surge again, and he pulled back marginally on the port throttle before gingerly pushing it forward again.
With care, he slides flat on his back under the electric-eye system, picks the gate's lock, drills holes into the safe's door, gingerly opens a corked bottle of nitroglycerin ( called " the soup " by the characters ) and sets off a charge on the safe.
There was much fury in Ireland and England that he and Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone had been treated so gingerly after allegedly committing treason ( this became known as the Sham Plot ), but time was on the side of the English authorities.
Following these incidents the race was a gingerly affair, with drivers not driving to win but to stay on the circuit.
Fudd winces and gingerly sends the skunk on his way.
While giving Colcord a piggyback ride, Blondin stopped five times on the tightrope to rest and recover his strength ; each time Colcord gingerly got off Blondin's back and stood on the tightrope, climbing back on after the acrobat had enough rest.
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As they watch this ragged shepherd boy gingerly handle the book, one of them, Francis Pringle, challenged him to read it, saying that he would buy it for him if he could do so.
At the medal ceremony, Dae Han gingerly approaches Tommy and praises him for his honorable act.
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It was gingerly removed ( by crane and low-loader ) to the test range at Shoeburyness, where it was detonated.
All over these lands there were sacred places which had earned their status in pre-Christian times and which had only been gingerly adopted by the Christian church and given a garnish of Christian names or dedications, hills, stones, and especially wells which can still be seen festooned with rags in observance of an old ritual.
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* In The Guns of Navarone, a German soldier gingerly removes a rat from a huge cannon.
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Mr. Crombie poked at it gingerly with his foot.
Even in 1950, however, Hollywood had to tread gingerly whenever dealing with big-time crime ; it was easier ( and safer ) to go after a " dead " criminal organization than a " live " one.
An alternate packing technique called the Frank method involves lightly dropping tobacco in the pipe, after which a large plug is gingerly pushed into the bowl all at once.
When North finally resigned under the strains of office and the disastrous American war in March 1782 and was gingerly replaced with the new ministry of the Marquess of Rockingham, Fox was appointed Foreign Secretary.
During the live broadcast, Chaney, playing the Monster, apparently thought it was just a rehearsal and he would pick up furniture that he was supposed to break, only to gingerly put it back down while muttering, " I saved it for you.
Plucked leaves are handled gingerly to prevent bruising and unwanted oxidation.
" According to a 2004 New York Times article, " Passers-by have rubbed — to a bright gleam — its nose, horns and a part of its anatomy that, as Mr. Benepe put it gingerly, ' separates the bull from the steer.
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote " The excitement derives entirely from the awareness of nitroglycerine and the gingerly, breathless handling of it.
Unsurprisingly for a play written when a Tudor still reigned, the king who has More executed is treated gingerly: the grounds of their dispute are not mentioned, and no one, including More, voices any direct criticism of the monarch.
He was in so much pain that he had to be helped – very slowly and gingerly – up to the Royal box to collect his medal, several minutes after his team-mates had done so.
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That is, when first penetration takes place, the pressure and pain signals may involuntarily cause all the vaginal muscles to contract in an effort to bar the intrusion and prevent further pain.
The result is an explicit choice function: a function that takes the first box to the first element we chose, the second box to the second element we chose, and so on.
* The Pennsic War, a massive gathering of the Society for Creative Anachronism, takes place about the first week of August every year.
* 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle ( Columbia ) takes place-the STS-1 mission.
* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
* 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
* 1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
* 1965 – The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
* 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
* 1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval / air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
Under the head of compositions of grace and elegance, the statue of Hebe takes the first place in point of date.
* 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
* The tutorial in the computer game Dystopia takes place in Yggdrasil's first arcology.
* 1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
:( 3 ) the batter reaches first base safely on a fair ball that takes an unnatural bounce so that a fielder cannot handle it with ordinary effort, or that touches the pitcher's plate or any base ( including home plate ) before being touched by a fielder and bounces so that a fielder cannot handle the ball with ordinary effort ;
In Wyndham Lewis's The Wild Body ( 1927 ) the protagonist, Ker-Orr, in the first story, ' A Soldier of Humour ', takes the train from Paris and stays in the town of Bayonne before passing through into Spain.
Whereas the first part of the film takes place in society restrained by law and order, the second part, including the flashback scene, occurs in the world of individuals and thus the characters seen in the first part of the film are revealed in their true form.
Chow Yun Fat said that on " the first day shooting I had to do 28 takes just because of the language.
The formula that yields this temperature is based on the first law of thermodynamics and takes note of the fact that the heat of combustion is used entirely for heating the fuel, the combustion air or oxygen, and the combustion product gases ( commonly referred to as the flue gas ).
He becomes the first person to ever complete the Trinity Great Court Run – running around the college courtyard in the time it takes for the clock to strike 12.
In this 600-page expansion of the pseudo-Homeric Batrachomyomachia, it is related at the court of the mice and takes up sections 5-8 of the first part.
Fairlands takes children moving up from Cheddar First School as well as other first schools in the Cheddar Valley.
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