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In the past, a car had to cross the finish line after 24 hours to be classified, which led to dramatic scenes where damaged cars waited in the pits or on the edge of the track close to the finish line for hours, then restarted their engines and crawled across the finish line one last time in order to finish after the 24 hours and be listed with a finishing distance, rather than dismissed with DNF ( Did Not Finish ).
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Alfred walked past him without a word and got into the car.
To the stump of a tree as he passed it, the same stump which had impaled the car of many a guest in the past thirty years and which he refused to have removed.
Back at the Kaiser's Fountain, I walked left to the streetcar stop and rode up the hill -- any car will do -- past the Column of Constantine, also known as the Burnt Column, at the top on my right.
Because his mind had been otherwise occupied for the past couple of hours, he did not think to look and see if Jerry Burton's car was still there.
The approach to the house was by car, past the caretaker's lodge and eventually under the building itself.
Minidiscs with ATRAC format songs have, in the past, been supported on Eclipse brand car stereos.
Yet another car drove past and Bryant shot at it, hitting the passenger, Susan Williams, in the hand.
One police officer then drove down the road past Seascape and past the disabled car of Mrs. White.
The bus lines towards Vorden, Apeldoorn and Dieren were cancelled in the past ; these towns and the destinations in between can now only be reached by car or by train.
The car bomb exploded close to a girls ' school in Cairo as the minister was driven past.
In the past its industries included repair shops of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, car works, engine works, bottling plants, and manufacturers of lumber, sashes and blinds, tannic acid, fertilizers, cigars, flour, cottonseed oil, and various other products.
* Hal Prewitt, past Town Commissioner, Race car driver, inventor of personal computer products and early pioneer in the personal computer revolution
In the past, the borough had foundries and machine shops, a silk mill, car works and classification yards.
In the past, it had flouring and planing mills, stove works, car shops, and shoe, hosiery, cigar, and furniture factories.
In the past, the town had " Rodeo Days " Festival with several events including, a parade, car show, and street dance.
In the past, groups that used car bombs have included:
Bark !” went the dog as he chased the car that vroomed past.
As the hat-and-trench-coat-adorned men slipped away into the night, Gotti calmly drove the car past the front of the restaurant to get a look at the scene.
They were unharmed but Brezhnev's car was forced to speed away past the waiting Soyuz 4 / 5 crews on the podium.
The creek now ends at Stonehouse Bridge ( for many years a toll bridge ) and to the north east the wide river bed which led up past Millbridge to Pennycomequick and beyond to the bottom of Ford Park Cemetery, has been reclaimed and infilled to provide the playing fields of Victoria Park, rugby pitches for Devonport High School for Boys, and nearest the bridge a large hardstanding used several days a week for Plymouth's biggest car boot sales.
Following the November, 2011 Spanish General Election, on June 1, 2012 the new conservative Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy reopened the monument to the public with the exception only of the base of the cross, in the past accessible by cable car or on foot, which will remain closed to ascent while the sculptures of the four apostles and the cardinal virtues forming part of the base of the cross are presently under engineering review and restoration for cracks and other deterioration.
Still bent on making his way to Brazil, Abagnale was picked up a few weeks later by two NYPD detectives when he inadvertently walked past their unmarked police car.
On paper, the package was said to produce the same as the non-Ram Air, Tri Power car, though these figures are believed to have been grossly underestimated in order to get past GM mandates.
Contrasted against the neo-classical Royal Exhibition centre, Denton Corker Marshall separates the two with an events plaza, yet connects them again underground with a car park, defining their motto ; “ A new connection between the old, the new, past and future “.
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That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.
Three days previously, we had steamed past barren Rennell Island in the distance.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.
Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??
Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.
Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.
John's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary.
Kate had walked past the school on her morning chores and had seen the whole incident, had seen Joel's burning humiliation before Miss Snow's cold, bespectacled wrath.
Rector had never been able to find out much about Hino's past.
He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.
But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.
Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.
For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.
This past year the pattern has been different: The organizing program had the full support of the AFL-CIO, which supplied staff and money to the AWOC, as well as moral support.
The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.
The storms of the past had died away, and the great upheaval which was to mark the following century had not yet begun to disturb men's minds.
The state had elected Republican candidates in the past two years.
But this fluent, enchanting utterance had, compared with important artists of the past, relatively little content.
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