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Pressing and out
Pressing records turned out to be a simple matter ; " I just looked in the phone book under record pressing plants and there was one there ", Ginn recalled, " and so I just took it to them and I knew about printing because I had always done catalogs.
Pressing a thug's head up against bubbling grease in a fry-o-lator basket: " OK ... Now I wanna know who's behind the pressure to get me out of town, hmmm.
Pressing of that button activates shields of green glass and blasts the island out of the water, turning it into a rocket for Earth and revealing a glowing white object with a fish-like tentacle protruding from it, holding a semicircular fin made out of the same material as the sails.
Pressing such a button will select the video out of that bus.
Pressing the fire button causes the first piece of the puzzle to slide out on to the playing area.

Pressing and Warren
Chesworth studied at Latrobe University, including time with composer's Jeff Pressing and Warren Burt.

Pressing and .
Pressing equipment -- flat-bed press measuring 24 inches by 50 inches or larger.
Pressing the dedicated key on 101-key keyboards sends the same scancodes as pressing, then, then releasing them in the reverse order would do ; additionally, an e1 < sub > hex </ sub > prefix is sent which enables 101-key aware software to discern the two situations, while older software usually just ignores the prefix.
Pressing down on one of the dimples would cause either one, two or three of the hexagonal buttons to be depressed at the same time, forming a chord that would be unique to that symbol.
The first test CD was pressed in Langenhagen near Hannover, Germany, by the Polydor Pressing Operations plant.
Pressing one of these keys gave your call priority, overriding other conversations on the network.
Pressing C, Immediate, before dialing would make the switch first look for any free lines, and if all lines were in use, it would disconnect any non-priority calls, and then any priority calls.
Pressing a string against a fret determines the strings ' vibrating length and therefore its resultant pitch.
" Pressing times to the desired density could vary by factor of three depending on the atmospheric humidity.
Pressing a key on the piano's keyboard causes a felt-covered hammer to strike steel strings.
Pressing the Scroll Lock key in the Linux console while text is scrolling through the screen can freeze the application generating the output — during the duration of the freeze no further text accumulates in the buffer, but rather the output continues from where it left off after Scroll Lock is released.
Pressing a button labeled Load Card, Load Tape, or Load Drum, etc.
Pressing the Next button would cause playback from the beginning of chapter 2.
Pressing on his attacks, Fort shows what he sees as the ridiculousness of the conventional explanations and then interjects with his own theories.
Pressing a button on the rear of the reel disengages the line pickup, and the button is then released during the forward cast to allow the line to fly off the spool.
Pressing the button on your side physically stops the movement of your clock and releases the hold on your opponent's.
In the opinion of Jeff Pressing, a psychologist who has studied improvisation extensively, vocal improvisers lack the benefit of " feedback redundancy " that instrumental improvisers have.
" Pressing on, de Anza located the sites for the Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asis in present day San Francisco, California on March 28, 1776.
Pressing a key opens a hole, allowing air to flow through a reed.
Pressing towards the Loire, Salisbury seized Le Puiset and Janville ( with some difficulty ) in August.
# Pressing: The fully fermented grain slurry is placed into cloth-lined containers and pressed to separate the solids from the liquid soy sauce.
" Pressing the Town button actuated a motor to rotate the tuning mechanism while the receiver sensitivity was reduced so that only local ( stronger ) signals would be received.
Pressing the Country button had the same effect except that full sensitivity was enabled so that the very next available station would be selected.
Pressing flowers makes them appear flat, and often there is a change in color, ranging from faded colors to a greater intensity of vibrant colors.
Pressing a button twice strikes the tennis shot with more power and spin.

cigarette and out
Then Rector, attired in his best blue serge suit, sat in a chair out on the lawn, in the shade of a tree, smoking a cigarette and waiting.
His worries harried him up out of bed, and he lighted a cigarette and went to the window.
One morning, we discovered not only that the pennies were missing from the idol but that a cigarette had been stubbed out in its lap.
::: stop smoking ( in the sense of putting out the cigarette one is smoking now ; literally ' leave from the tobacco ')
As in the past, the appeal lies in the vitality of the character, a hero who can go into a brawl and come out with his hair combed and who, faced with death, lights a cigarette and taunts his enemy with the signature phrase " As the actress said to the bishop ...."
Some of her old friends, the Bohemians, now and then drop in to have a little chat with her, and though she talks beautifully of her present feelings and way of life, she generally, by way of parenthesis, takes out her little tobacco pouch and makes a cigarette or two for self and friend, and then falls back upon old times with decided gusto and effect.
In one scene, Egbert comes downstairs and when his family mentions his smoking, he uses a quick movement of his lips to " fold " the still-burning cigarette into his mouth so that he can walk out unmolested.
Meanwhile, Twilly Spree and Clinton Tyree are driving along the highway towards Tyree's wilderness when they see another group of litterbugs throwing lighted cigarette butts, empty bottles and other rubbish out of their speeding car.
In Spellbound, he can be seen coming out of an elevator at the Empire State Hotel, carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette, about 37 minutes into the film.
The cigarette turned out to be holding a lethal dose of the Skull's favorite poison, the Dust of Death, intended for Rogers-but the trap backfired against Schmidt when Walker suddenly hit him from behind with his shield.
Kitty is repulsed and leaves, so Ace uses his newly acquired cash to lure the attention of the casino's cigarette girl and bets the pile in a game of craps, just as Jimbo's powers " run out ".
The two were married for a number of years, until she was believed to be killed in an accident ( Duckman had flicked his cigarette out into a street during a parade and it hit a balloon which deflated and knocked her down a manhole ).
Hitchcock continues the interplay of light and dark throughout the film: Guy's bright, light tennis attire, versus " the gothic gloominess of Arlington mansion "; the crosscutting between his game in the sunshine at Forest Hills while Bruno's arm stretches into the dark and debris of the storm drain trying to fish out the cigarette lighter ; even a single image where " Walker is photographed in one visually stunning shot as a malignant stain on the purity of the white-marble Jefferson Memorial, as a blot on the order of things.
For example, one patient was observed putting a cigarette into her mouth with her intact, ' controlled ' hand ( her right, dominant hand ), following which her alien, non-dominant, left hand came up to grasp the cigarette, pull the cigarette out of her mouth, and toss it away before it could be lit by the controlled, dominant, right hand.
The subplot of Myra Breckinridge revolves around the character of Letitia Van Allen, an aging, sexually voracious talent scout whom Myra meets and befriends at the academy, whose office boasts a four-poster bed and whose kinky sexual practices (" Those small attentions a girl like me cherishes … a lighted cigarette stubbed out on my derrière, a complete beating with his great thick heavy leather belt …") landed her in hospital, " half paralyzed ", at the same time Myra finds herself there towards the end of the novel.
It was real cold there and he had these big leather gloves on, and he would put out a cigarette in his glove.
Teller is, in fact, simply hiding and replacing the same cigarette without ever putting it out.
" Stan puffs on a once-forbidden cigarette, and then goes out the door singing: Honolulu Baby.
In July 1951, at the age of 10, Kovacs became involved in a violent fight with two older bullies, in which he partly blinded one with a cigarette and took a large bite out of the other's cheek in a blind rage.
Rocky's guests include Jack " Legs " Rhinstone ( wearing ladies ' socks on his legs ), " Baby Face Half " Nelson ( whose face is the size of his cigar end ), " Pizza Puss " Lasagna ( whose face looks like the surface of a pizza ), " Pistol Nose " Pringle ( whose nose is shaped like a pistol, and breathes out cigarette smoke ), and " Teeth " Malloy ( whose giant teeth take up all of his face ).
Driving a Porsche 911 ( which seems to crash at least once every comic ), he is always extremely fast at the place of the crime, and can make the most brilliant deductions out of the smallest clues ( often a cigarette stub ).
He cannot light his own cigarette and is forgetting one day out of seven.

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