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opened and crack
The sections are normally marked with a crack in the wall, which can be opened by either planting a bomb or by shooting a rocket at it.
* The Satyricon of Gaius Petronius Arbiter is pervaded with scopophilia, as when a priestess of Priapus was " the first to put an inquisitive eye to a crack she had naughtily opened, and spy on their play with prurient eagerness ".
Pastor Wilkerson opened the church in response to what he described as " the physically destitute and spiritually dead people " he saw among the pimps, runaways and crack dealers who populated the area.
In June 1980, the dam again experienced leakage problems when a crack opened on its upstream face, sending more than of water spraying across the downstream side of the dam.

opened and doing
By 1840, to protect the interests of the various nationals doing business in Zanzibar, consul offices had been opened by the British, French, Germans and Americans.
In so doing, Laos has opened the door to rapprochement with Thailand and China at some expense to its special dependence on Vietnam.
In so doing, Laos has opened the door to rapprochement with Thailand and China at some expense to its special dependence on Vietnam.
McAlester opened a second general store on this corner and was able to continue doing business selling coal to the railroads.
" The new school, designed to teach both Baptist ministers and laymen, opened on February 3, 1834, as the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute, named because students and staff were required to spend half of each day doing manual labor on the plantation.
During 1868 – 69 he built the church, doing much of the work himself, and in 1869 he opened Seattle ’ s first Catholic church at Third Avenue and Washington Street, on the site where the present-day Prefontaine Building stands.
Up to 1994, the NL champion opened the World Series at home in even-numbered years, with the AL champion doing so in odd-numbered years, with this then being reversed starting 1995 because of the missed 1994 World Series.
By withdrawing their ships from the Hellespont to Samos, the Athenians were able to reestablish their naval superiority in the Aegean, but in doing so they opened the door for Sparta to shift the theater of war.
After doing some prospecting, Ghirardelli opened a general store in Stockton, California, offering supplies and confections to fellow miners in town.
In doing so, he opened the door to foreign reinforcements, but he also gave continuity to the tradition of the club of employing players that had been trained in its youth system.
He testified that he'd meant to go to sleep in Jackson's room, had found the door " kind of locked, so pushed it, and it opened " and walked some ways into the room and stopped when he saw what Gavin and Michael were doing.
" Choi then opened the doors and fled, but in doing so he removed the master key, shutting down the onboard batteries which powered the train doors — effectively sealing passengers inside.
Each broadcast opened with a piece on what the president had been doing that day.
At last, on the point of abandoning ship in order to save lives, a message was received to hold on as long as possible and Anglo-Californian got under way again, whereupon the U-boat opened a very heavy fire, doing great damage.
Ulysses S. Grant completed both actions by February 16, 1862, and by doing so, opened the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers as Union supply lines and avenues of invasion to Tennessee, Mississippi, and eventually Georgia.
After that period it is said that that boxes neither opened nor had a privilege and sultan give precious Asar-e-Shariff's command to Noor Mohammed Mushrif since then Mushrif Family is doing Asar urs.
In 1979, he opened a branch in Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur doing retail and selling 40 to 60 cars monthly.
In 1956, after being released from Universal, Berry returned to Las Vegas where he opened for and joined Abbott & Costello in their stage act, doing sketches and song & dance routines at the Sahara Hotel and Casino.
With the exception of these special few pitches in the low octave, the combinations of partials on various sets of opened tone holes results in the left hand fingers going through something very similar to what they would be doing to manipulate the valves on a modern brass instrument.
Dinobot was further outraged when Megatron planned to flee into Transwarp, but was delighted when Megatron opened fire on the Axalon while doing so.
Returning to Bologna, after doing some work in Fontainebleau ( France ) and in Genoa, he opened a school of art, in which he became briefly the preceptor of Lodovico and Agostino Carracci.

opened and so
The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).
To have applied statewide the decisions of the two cases heard in Superior Court, in my opinion, would have placed us clearly out of compliance with the Wagner-Peyser Act and would have immediately opened the way for the Secretary of Labor, were he so inclined, to notify the Governor of such noncompliance, set a date for hearing, and issue his finding.
Though by no means an ideal procedure, a red wine may similarly be brought from the cellar to the dining room and opened twenty minutes or so before serving time.
But instead his men thought it was filled with riches, so they opened it which is why the journey was extended.
The exercise was so successful that the company had opened dealerships in Shanghai and Beijing within three months.
So many Englishmen and Gascons came to that part, that perforce they opened the king's battle, so that the Frenchmen were so mingled among their enemies that sometime there was five men upon one gentleman.
As he did so, the frigate Sérieuse opened fire on Orion, wounding two men.
The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light ... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me.
Panic bars are often used in buildings so that a door locked from the exterior can quickly and easily be opened from the inside in the event of a fire or other emergency.
Benton, intending to challenge Atchison in 1854, began to agitate for territorial organization of the area west of Missouri ( now the states of Kansas and Nebraska ) so it could be opened to settlement.
By contrast, the Gemini capsule's avionics were designed so the cabin could be exposed to the vacuum of space when one of two large hatches was opened, so no airlock was required, and both the spacewalking astronaut and his companion command pilot were in vacuum during the EVA.
Things were going so well for the company, that in 1973, the company's German executives accidentally opened a store in Konstanz when they had meant to open one in Koblenz.
He articled with a local lawyer, who died before Macdonald qualified, and Macdonald opened his own practice, although not yet entitled to do so.
A new international terminal was built by the government of Japan and began operation since 2008, which is the first of three terminals to be opened so far.
DEZ is violently flammable when it comes in contact with either oxygen or water vapor, so the vacuum chamber could not be opened to remove the books within.
Morocco opened its doors to offshoring in July 2006, as one component of the development initiative Plan Emergence, and has so far attracted roughly half of the French-speaking call centres that have gone offshore so far and a number of the Spanish ones.
Mariotto was a most restless person and carnal in the affairs of love and apt to the art of living, and, taking a dislike to the studies and brain-wracking necessary to painting, being also often stung by the tongues of other painters, as is their way, he resolved to give himself to a less laborious and more jovial profession, and so opened the most lovely hostelry outside the Porta San Gallo, and at the sign of the Dragon at the Ponte Vecchio a tavern and inn.
As the general recognition of managers as a class solidified during the 20th century and gave perceived practitioners of the art / science of management a certain amount of prestige, so the way opened for popularised systems of management ideas to peddle their wares.
Since some applications ( notably, but not exclusively, the parts of Microsoft Office ) allow macro programs to be embedded in documents, so that the programs may be run automatically when the document is opened, this provides a distinct mechanism by which viruses can be spread.
The school opened mid year so the Kindergarten class of 1952 also attended the first half of First Grade in the Masonic Temple.

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