Muriel, longing for home, is beckoned by the local racetrack.
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For Mendes, a new career as a soccer agent beckoned.
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Samuel Billy Kyles and another local minister beckoned the Rev.
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Then I beckoned my partner over and we gawped together.
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They beckoned us out of the car and hugged me.
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That is when the University of Northern New Jersey beckoned.
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It sounded vaguely unthreatening, so we beckoned them to approach.
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After four years in the job, a bigger stage beckoned.
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Tomorrow would be another day, and a new year beckoned.
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A gaping hole on right side of the infield beckoned.
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Magid embraced him, and beckoned the group to the table.
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When I finished speaking with Um Khalid, a man beckoned me.
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The next time I saw Mother Teresa, she beckoned to me.
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In the abbey, painted phrases from the Apocalypse beckoned towards horror.
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She smiled at me and beckoned for me to follow her.
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He took on projects for stage and television, and Hollywood beckoned.
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And the warmer winters have now beckoned them to New England.
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The middle-aged couple beckoned for Jensen, and he joined them.
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But school vacation was ending and my melting-down country beckoned.
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A crowd of cheering voices and clanging bells beckoned White down.
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But ultimately Oakland, with its supportive artist and transgender communities, beckoned.
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But as he entered his 21977th year, the majors finally beckoned.
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In 2011, he decided to return to Jakarta, where opportunity beckoned.
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Sports of The Times NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Ah, how grandness beckoned.
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He would stay less than six months as New York beckoned again.
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But recently, LA beckoned, and she decided to return to her roots.
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The sun beckoned the blossoms, and the blossoms begged for the bees.
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Now a new country — or at least the promise of one — beckoned.
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Across a lagoon, about a mile away, the cedars of Bermuda beckoned.
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Heading home and pursuing her musical ambitions beckoned, or so she thought.
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Danang also has its own signature dishes, which beckoned me most enthusiastically.
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They beckoned Short to join them in a conference room for a chat.
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"Dance with Me" immediately beckoned, but knowing its significance to Evans, Ballerini hesitated.
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A potential revolution beckoned but plodding state-owned banks were slow to respond.
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Just when Walmart's aura was at its most intimidating, in 234, stagnation beckoned.
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Broader horizons beckoned for Strahan, however, in the form of Good Morning America.
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I beckoned him closer, eager to find something to satisfy the vagabond's hunger.
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Windfall Island slowly shrank away, and Dragon Roost Island beckoned on the horizon.
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Roller coasters, spinning teacups and dolphins beckoned just minutes away at Disney World.
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Canada beckoned with a research position at the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research.
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Gorgeous cherry tomatoes and ripe red bell peppers at the market also beckoned.
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He listened carefully, then beckoned me into his office, nearer the warning sign.
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He felt stuck in his studio while the spacious Mesopotamian plains beckoned outside.
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"Watch Amy Schumer shut down a rude interviewer like a boss," Time beckoned.
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That evening, as my stomach began to growl, the sunset beckoned me outside.
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Beckham is not waiting for her app-beckoned ride like us plebes, of course.
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If fertile fields beckoned, the amount of available cash would be shrinking, not rising.
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While still on the ground, he beckoned her closer and held out his hand.
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However, that beckoned the question of what it would do with the extra money.
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Forget revision; what was done was old already, and the next piece beckoned, better.
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" It beckoned readers to follow its feed "for science and climate news and facts.
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Suicide beckoned as the only solution to end the physical pain and insurmountable hopelessness.
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She beckoned us inside her cave with a red tiled awning and arched door.
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More players are beckoned over, more impromptu huddles are held, more ground is covered.
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She said that in the past, it was revival houses that beckoned to cinephiles.
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"Come and experience the magic of Ramadan nights," a newspaper ad beckoned in Hebrew.
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With the taxi on the way, I beckoned my oldest son into the hallway.
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Muhammad Kalay, two of Gibbs's soldiers beckoned to an Afghan man working in a
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After a third day, the east coast of Africa, and food and rest, beckoned.
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He shot me an angry look and beckoned me to return to my table.
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He frowned at my response, then ran off, beckoned by his group of white friends.
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He then beckoned to Irish reporter Caitríona Perry, the US bureau chief for RTÉ News.
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In Klepper's première episode, he fidgeted in his chair and beckoned urgently at the camera.
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Easy-bake artichokes zipped past; honey BBQ chicken wings and strawberry cotton candy cocktails beckoned.
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But since the start of the year, concerns have faded, and tech shares beckoned again.
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And yet, my old manual toothbrush, poking out of a mug on the vanity, beckoned.
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She beckoned a group of tourists, mostly white, in flip-flops and with American accents.
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Once, as I wandered past her office enquiringly, the librarian, H.N. Poornima, beckoned me in.
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Mostly clear skies beckoned along much of the route, according to the National Weather Service.
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It was here that the navy beckoned when a recruitment officer came to the college.
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Given the revelations this week, Taylor might soon find himself beckoned to Capitol Hill, too.
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On the way out of the performance, a room labeled "Dancer as Archive-ing" beckoned.
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It was then that I was beckoned behind the velvet ropes and into the Winner's Circle.
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Then the military beckoned to the Rohingya, these witnesses said, and picked out the 10 men.
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Basically, greener pastures suddenly beckoned last month, and I'm low-key excited about my new role.
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After a seemingly endless winter battling deadlines and depression, the spring came and beckoned the thaw.
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In it he drunkenly beckoned her while dangling a Hershey's bar out the family car's window.
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Boyaco beckoned to him to sit down, and rebuked the man for speaking out of turn.
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After the storm passed, Mr. Corbé ventured outside to the balcony and beckoned Mr. Céspedes over.
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She beckoned, teasingly, when he exited — "We're coming with you" — making him blush like a schoolboy.
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Standing in the doorway of the house and wearing a rain slicker, he beckoned us in.
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In a matter of hours on Saturday, thousands rushed to the nation's airports, beckoned by tweets.
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He cried foul at presidential getaways that cost the taxpayers millions until Mar-a-Lago beckoned.
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Accumulate 550 sweatcoins, the app beckoned, and I could snag a Fitbit Flex wearable fitness tracker.
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The music changed, and Ali was beckoned backstage—it was time to prepare for her performance.
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Her husband, Kennier Berra, had landed there in February, found work and beckoned her to join him.
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But he didn't watch all the footage himself, because he didn't have time and new projects beckoned.
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An inmate with a camera mounted on a tripod beckoned me over for my official race portrait.
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Aisha Ibrahim, another student, said militants beckoned her and her friends to come to them for help.
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"Welcome to my garden," a crone beckoned, and I proceeded cautiously, worried she'd push a farm share.
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" When Versalles hesitated, Billy Martin, Mele's third-base coach, beckoned Versalles to sit next to him. "O.
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We would have enjoyed spending an entire day just on the riverbank, but Khmer civilization beckoned us.
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Broadway beckoned, and in the succeeding years he became the biggest star of both blackface and Broadway.
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I was new to the building, so I was glad when she beckoned me into the elevator.
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Free pizza was the holy grail, the siren that beckoned me to parties, departmental functions, and family gatherings.
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But as Ms. Alden set off toward another man who beckoned to her, Mr. Spahn blocked her path.
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A pair of binoculars with a Florida bird guide beckoned, as did the requisite fluffy robes and slippers.
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And then, two years into his retirement, the fledgling World Hockey Association beckoned with a team in Houston.
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But I suspect the area's changes would not matter as much as knowing it still beckoned to us.
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Mr. Clyburn said in an interview on Saturday that he could remember being similarly beckoned only once before.
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She smiled, waved and beckoned the rank and file to help her guide the party and the country.
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I turned to see the man exiting the cab in a huff while the driver beckoned me eagerly.
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That beckoned Gantz's centrist Blue and White and ex-defense minister Avigdor Lieberman's secularist-nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu parties.
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A skinny boy pushed himself into the far corner of the settee and beckoned me to sit down.
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Dr. Pacheco-Ruiz said the team had so far discovered and photographed 44 shipwrecks, and that more beckoned.
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The Jacuzzi was occupied by several hairy-chested Sinaloans who beckoned me to share their bottle of mezcal.
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Jeff beckoned us to the top of a huge rock to witness the most amazing sunset over Lake Eyasi.
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Deep space—the universe beyond Earth, with its promise of discovery and adventure—has beckoned to humans for millennia.
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Grisham's novel Playing for Pizza—it's about ex-NFL quarterback Rick Dockery's personal and professional redemption in Italy—beckoned.
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An abundance of luscious grapes and juicy figs beckoned, along with great baskets of quinces, lemons, oranges and pomegranates.
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As the lawyer spoke, they cracked jokes, signed documents, and beckoned their assistants to collect folders from the bench.
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And nothing about Trump's overly defensive, excessively pouty and sometimes outright mendacious performance beckoned those voters to his side.
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Paul named the motel and room number, and the coyote nodded, beckoned with his eyes for them to follow.
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Inside the enclosed cavern, the walls were lined with barrels and cheerfully decorated tables and chairs beckoned to guests.
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The red-and-white latticed Guavaberry Emporium beckoned passers-by with reggae music and free tastings of spiced rums.
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Beckoned by the president, the girl was lifted into the air and toward the stage to meet with him.
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The scientists had just taken another small step toward harnessing the power of the universe, and the weekend beckoned.
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They run away together into that mystical place that's beckoned everyone from John Muir to Cheryl Strayed: the wild.
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He turned to the line of aides standing behind him and beckoned to a slender man to come forward.
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She beckoned the boy and girl to a stack of simple books and told them to each choose one.
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There was none on the East Coast, but in magazine photos and films Hawaii beckoned ominously, beauty and terror.
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A mother of a UTSA graduate, she beckoned Castro for a photo, throwing up the famous Texan hand sign.
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Each passing text tugged at Ms. Lewell's heart, pulling her toward a new life that beckoned beyond the border.
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Fatima, 25: He beckoned me over and it led to this three-way thing in one of the rooms.
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Kate briefly curtsied and Andrew beckoned his sister Princess Anne to make sure she was able to join the group.
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Now, all that is left of Music Row are the signs and awnings that beckoned to virtuosos and neophytes alike.
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He interrupted his call with prime minister Leo Varadkar, pointed at the journalist Caitriona Perry, and beckoned her towards him.
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Now he beckoned me over, with the same kind of authoritarian gestures with which he had ordered my lights extinguished.
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The bright lights of the toy stands beckoned hoards of children, who dashed through the park with their new purchases.
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But before long Mr. S. beckoned for her, and I was left alone staring at the gash in the wall.
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It long beckoned to archaeologists because they knew its deep waters lacked oxygen, a rarity for large bodies of water.
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By midafternoon, a restless atmosphere permeated the marble corridors of the State Capitol as a perfect summer day beckoned outside.
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Then the farm's manager, Juan Crisostomo Osorio Marín, beckoned me to follow a dirt path up into the coffee bushes.
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She instinctively walked toward the group of white people, only to be beckoned to the other side of the room.
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During the song's final chorus, Lane beckoned his bride and her dad back out on the floor for a group dance.
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We took a swig or two for courage, because a two-story exterior iron staircase beckoned, leading to the rooftop bar.
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My girlfriend, V, and I were finishing college, with a summer to burn before the next thing, and New York beckoned.
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Just beyond the street lamps, a rapidly darkening forest, already filled with a chorus of wood frogs and spring peepers, beckoned.
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The "infamous" potholed alleyway at the end of his block, adorned with aggressively legible NO PARKING and NO LOITERING signs, beckoned.
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She answered his fan mail and, in the mid-1940s, followed him to California when a career in motion pictures beckoned.
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Militants who saw one student, Hafsat Lawan, 17, and her friends hurrying over the fence beckoned them to come for safety.
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What beckoned was the idea of installing near the atom bomb a separate capsule that would hold much more thermonuclear fuel.
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Clinton, they said, had beckoned her cronies in the woods to smile for selfies and make her look folksy and beloved.
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The man identified himself as a translator beckoned over by the swimmer, to make sure his words had been captured accurately.
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Before the spotlight beckoned, Ms. Hutchins grew up in Seattle, where she was a three-time state high school debate champion.
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I found myself wanting to pause the movie (impossible in a theater) and just see what the movie beckoned me to see.
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But when the seminar paused for the first break, Lantz said that Robbins left the stage and beckoned her over to him.
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Hollywood beckoned and he ended up as a movie star instead, with bad guy roles in movies including The Enemy Below(1957).
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Well, until she gets beckoned back to Wonderland — this time to save a sad Mad Hatter and help him find his family.
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"As we looked ahead, the protracted downturn in the energy economy in Tulsa was worrisome," Cameron said, but the Dallas area beckoned.
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He emerged in time to see the Arryn cavalry arrive, beckoned by Sansa's letter, presumably, to turn the tide of the clash.
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And so Poland beckons, just as Germany, with a similar law, has beckoned since Brexit for some British Jews of German origin.
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Each time Johnson hit the mat, by knockdown or by failed takedown, the exhausted Gaethje beckoned him back up to the feet.
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This is his fifth trip to Augusta in which the Masters has beckoned as the lone missing piece from his major collection.
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I was putting on SPF 60 sunscreen because I'm as white as they come, when my friends beckoned me into the water.
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This worried me, because while Jade seemed committed to being a peacenik, her genes could have beckoned to her at any time.
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Soon enough, however, their love-fest was interrupted by Seacrest, who beckoned Keith Urban, lurking in the background, over to join them.
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Then the military beckoned with their guns to the crowd of roughly 23 Rohingya to assemble in the paddies, these witnesses said.
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Lately, the Channel Tunnel has beckoned intruders of a different sort: migrants from Africa and the Middle East hoping to reach Britain.
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Rye Coalition embraced the NOU aesthetic wholeheartedly until the ostensibly more satisfying and presumably more profitable influence mines of early AC/DC beckoned.
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A bright hot day beckoned outside and a maid visited about restocking the minibar, but I slept soundly until my wake-up call.
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Like the other Echo speakers, this one has the signature blue ring of LEDs around its top that illuminate when Alexa is beckoned.
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With a gentle wave of his hand, he beckoned Flores toward him, embracing her under the bright, blinding light of the chopper overhead.
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But we had burned out in the almost literal sense, and the ferry, with its gentle gusts on serene waters, beckoned us home.
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But the pool still beckoned, and last weekend, just 17 months after giving birth, she won a silver and a bronze in Rio.
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The content production machine never tires, and fresh battles beckoned me daily, leaving Maniac a senseless casualty in my endless, Sisyphean entertainment war.
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His signature scent also beckoned a love interest that would become his girlfriend for nearly five years—meaning it was inarguably life-changing.
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But Rodriquez, who lives next to the cemetery, beckoned me over with the gentle wave of a man not quite fatigued by interlopers.
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I frequently found myself wanting to pause the scenes (impossible in a theater) and just see what the camera beckoned me to see.
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As the end of his presidential bid beckoned last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio furiously worked the phones, trying to forestall the inevitable.
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The resulting effect was a juxtaposition between the private bedroom space and the public; the posters and graphics beckoned toward the outside world.
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California beckoned once more, and she went home to study at the Jepson Art Institute with the Italian painter and designer Rico Lebrun.
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This lack of accountability, particularly for a firm as influential as McKinsey, beckoned us to dig deeply into its conduct around the world.
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But with the adrenaline of the first live show of the season, the model says his partner beckoned him more "expeditiously" than in rehearsal.
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The emcee beckoned all the couples over, while Jake and I stood at the periphery of the dancefloor, feeling a little out of place.
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When I surfaced, the man collecting sea urchins beckoned me over to take a look at the ball of black needles in his hand.
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Two teenage boys at Mr. Lao Best Beer bar beckoned me with "Hello, relax, come, have a drink," and were perplexed when I declined.
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As gray skies hung over the city's skyline — a mixture of old, colorful apartment buildings and shiny new Doha-like skyscrapers — the mountains beckoned.
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The first services that beckoned us to what was not yet widely known as the cloud set the tone for what was to come.
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Last year, she and a business partner, Tamika Young, opened a small shop in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, but closed it when Manhattan beckoned.
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Since those early days, digital platforms have beckoned people who want to gain a larger audience not just online but in mainstream "legacy" media.
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With abundant energy and seemingly endless supplies of sand — the key raw material — Iran beckoned as the best place on earth to make glass.
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Showtime beckoned, and Mr. Lacey got ready to slip into his sleeveless tight outfit, a get-up that pleases many women in the audience.
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I thought about the adorable little cardboard M&M who'd beckoned to my toddler daughter when we recently stepped into a Duane Reade drugstore.
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Although Puerto Rico tends to conjure images of palms and beaches, the rain forest just down the road beckoned, as something a little different.
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Finally, after saying good night to his mother-in-law, Foos beckoned me to follow him across the parking lot to the utility room.
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Two vocalists — Alice Teyssier and Lucy Dhegrae, whispering, barely, through small megaphones — appeared, and the audience was beckoned into the center of the space.
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Before we could even head to the back of the line, the bouncer unhooked a red velvet rope and beckoned for us to come inside.
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Both teams had been in the doldrums for years, and baseball was beginning to lose ballplayers to military service in World War II. Opportunity beckoned.
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Halfway through the film, nature called, and as I sprinted past Mr. Beatty, who was still in the lounge, he beckoned me to his side.
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It instead beckoned an all-star lineup of right-wing provocateurs, fake news peddlers, pro-Trump lawmakers, political meme artists, and anti-anti-Trump contrarians.
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A stern woman at the entrance, suddenly all smiles once we agreed on a price for entry, donned a conductor's cap and beckoned us in.
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Hollywood beckoned — he appeared in films like "Carousel" and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" — but he always remained loyal to City Ballet and to Balanchine.
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Even without a picnic, the lush lawn beckoned, and I insisted we lounge for a while, savoring the cool, fresh grass in our bare feet.
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As Erhorn listened on the first day, a judge pushed himself toward a microphone on the bench and beckoned Jackson to begin the prosecution's opening statement.
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The man in the grubby red tracksuit and backwards baseball cap saw me loitering in the shopping center, and beckoned me over with a head flick.
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"You know, [my parents] were just so supportive of me," Brady told ESPN while recalling the difficult day that beckoned the start of his professional career.
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As the actress started booking more high-profile projects in her late teens and early twenties, and a life in Los Angeles beckoned, she battled anxiety.
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Moss faults neoliberal avarice, which has been beckoned to New York's neighborhoods by the siren call of (usually white) artists and the gentrification that follows them.
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I stepped into another place, off of a sidestreet in Meguro, after the chef behind the window beckoned me in (I'd already passed the window twice).
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But they could not stay there more than 90 days and the country would not grant them refugee status, so Jeju beckoned as a safe haven.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank — A Christmas tree inside the doorway beckoned travelers to the Jacir Palace Hotel, a luxury inn in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
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I had been beckoned there by an Instagram ad featuring a woman with heart-shaped glasses on her face and a plastic cup in her hand.
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Independence, both creative and professional, eventually beckoned, and a vision of a nine-piece band playing to mixed-race audiences came to him in his dreams.
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Mr. Cosby beckoned her over, she said, pulled her down between his legs, so that her back was against his groin, and began stroking her hair.
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But in 2011, for unclear reasons, the relationship broke down; one afternoon, when the Mashco appeared on the riverbank and beckoned to Shaco, he ignored them.
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Eventually, she recognized the man she knew only through pictures, who towered over her family and beckoned her over with the word còn, or child, in Vietnam.
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Google has long had voice assistant tech in its Android phones — beckoned by the words "Okay, Google" — that many in the industry see as leading the pack.
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Also this year: Autonomous shuttle companies May Mobility, Optimus Ride, and Navya beckoned members of the public aboard in Columbus, Ohio; the suburbs of Boston; and Vegas.
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It also made him that "pumped-up absurdity", a celebrity-priest with a bad Beatles haircut and a black polo-neck, puckishly turning up wherever trouble beckoned.
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There's a processional, almost mythic feeling, as if they all were on a pilgrimage and that distant burst of light mystically beckoned them to an otherworldly end.
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Comey and Trump saw each other again at a White House event with law enforcement over the weekend, where Trump beckoned Comey to come over to him.
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Between them was a camera button that aggressively beckoned you to post Stories, a dedicated Games tab and a Discover tab for finding businesses and utility app.
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Now a marketing bigwig at Twitter and mainstay of the LFC DayTrippers podcast, he was on the books of several pro clubs before the lower leagues beckoned.
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But though grilled meats and fresh breads beckoned, we didn't dine out much because we ate so grandly inside people's homes, including the home of Jarallah Omar.
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He parked the car in the center of our circular driveway, right by the front door, and beckoned my mother and me to come have a look.
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The cavernous room had been draped in the fashion typical to "Bachelor" cocktail parties; candles burned, sequined pillows beckoned, and a stocked bar stood at the ready.
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It was Las Vegas, the poster city for getting away, and a dazzling lineup of entertainment beckoned, a three-day country music festival known as Route 91.
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Ms. Lynne appeared onstage and on television throughout the 1950s, but when she replaced the choreographer of a revue called "England Our England," a new direction beckoned.
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Allapattah's cheaper real estate beckoned: The Rubells bought their new museum's lot for $4 million, and purchased a similarly sized lot across the street for $8.6 million.
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Their global goals beckoned the question of how the companies will fare under a Trump administration, which has been publicly cracking down on companies taking their business overseas.
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Subsequently, the big screen beckoned him, Harris and their children to India in 1987 for The Deceivers, in which Brosnan played an Englishman pretending to be an Indian.
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For others, like Lisa Maffia (whose debut solo single, 2003's "All Over" remains an unjustly neglected club-packaged R&B banger) solo careers of varying success beckoned.
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I know they would have left their door open and have beckoned the prophet Elijah to enter and drink the cup of wine they had reserved for him.
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Then the night beckoned, and DJ Khaled sent his designer backpack and its handler out into the world, where a blue Rolls-Royce and a black van awaited.
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Listening to them now, three decades down the line, it isn't hard to see why Lawrence felt fame, fortune, and a spot on Top of the Pops beckoned.
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So Acton didn't know what to expect when Zuck beckoned him to his office last September, around the time Acton told Facebook brass that he planned to leave.
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" At the time, "the descent very much beckoned," said Macfarlane, who then recalled the couplet when he began work on his latest book, "Underland: A Deep Time Journey.
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Going on vacation, several said, meant sitting in a hotel room, updating smartphone apps and taking in the bounties of the online world, even if the beach beckoned.
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The entire performance we were lead by an usher with a walkie-talkie who pointed or beckoned us, keeping my group, group five, moving through the various spaces.
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Order was quickly restored as Federer broke once to take the third set and when he had a point for a double break in the fourth, the title beckoned.
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I did not mean to stop at the bar with the big open windows where everyone looks good and seems wasted, but they yelled my name, beckoned me over.
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When he beat defending champion and home hero Andy Murray to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2014 and crack the world's top 10 it seemed that greatness beckoned.
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CreditCreditKyle Johnson for The New York Times Zach Both was living in Boston and working as an art director for a 3D printing start-up when the road beckoned.
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Across the water, a huge mural beckoned visitors into a Moody Blues-themed dark ride called Nights in White Satin: The Trip, designed to evoke a multisensory psychedelic experience.
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The competition, in 2008, beckoned as an invitation to create something prominent — "an iconic tall emblem structure that contributes to the new face of Dubai," according to the rules.
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I sat down and told the dealer, I'm ready to trade in my motor car, which is paid for, and I beckoned for my chauffeur to bring the case over.
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At one point early in one game of 50 v 50, a teammate beckoned me into an abandoned gas station mini-mart to gift me two guns and some ammo.
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"Well, I do have thousands of pages of fake history of everything that led up to Game of Thrones," Martin said after showrunner David Benioff beckoned him to the microphone.
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Such black nights and clear skies have beckoned astronomers to install some of the world's most powerful telescopes on volcanic peaks in this archipelago off the northwestern coast of Africa.
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A chuckwagon, christened the "Dinner Tree," was established on site at the time and beckoned cowboys looking for a bit of warmth and a bite on their cow-hustling routes.
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For nearly three years, Parnas beckoned investors to buy shares in the company through press releases and other promotions that a federal court receiver would later deem to be fraudulent.
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Of course, it wasn't long before the responsibilities of adult life beckoned, and we were forced to think of work as more than just a hangout space for Pikachu. Bo-ring.
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The far-off lights of Jaffa — a city that Palestinians from the West Bank are not allowed to enter — beckoned so temptingly that they decided to walk all the way there.
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Still, Parker was more concerned about his pet bearded dragon, Spike, whom he was bringing in a glass tank to a hotel room in Carmel-by-the-Sea, where electricity beckoned.
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Last year, in Oakhurst, California, the Dirty Donkey Tavern beckoned us from across the parking lot of our hotel after a day spent scaling rock faces and domes in Southern Yosemite.
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Several awkward minutes later, the door opened a crack, and a young Mexican man in a white apron beckoned us to enter, quietly, taking care to ensure we weren't being followed.
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The course on this, the third and final day of La Ruta, was flat, and the finish line beckoned from a soft-sand beach less than 20 miles down the road.
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The clubby political culture of legislators, lobbyists and consultants in state capitals is often male-dominated and can result in men being beckoned from the legislature to run for statewide office.
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A police officer beckoned the scientist to show him a set of items that had washed up on the beach — goggles, a spear gun and a torn pair of swim trunks.
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Michael O'Neal, a civic-minded New York restaurateur who, with his actor brother, Patrick, upgraded the emblematic Irish bar into an American bistro that beckoned singles and celebrities, died on Nov.
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I'd praise that as a positive step toward a bigger tent except that the gay man who was being beckoned into it gleefully promotes destructive stereotypes about gays and other minorities.
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Watching Ford and other protesting survivors be heard then ignored by the Senate on TV and on social media beckoned a sense of powerlessness, one that felt all too familiar for many.
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But this was for science, mom, and the very nice trio that beckoned a reporter within turned out to be rather entrepreneurial spirits, who just want to create a good night's sleep.
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LAC LA BICHE, Alberta — Fort McMurray, or Fort Make Money, as some Canadians nicknamed it during its recent boom years, was the kind of place where second chances and fat paychecks beckoned.
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The world of work beckoned, and for single women of their class, that meant one of two professions, teacher or governess, neither of which they were suited to by talent or temperament.
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And what better way to celebrate this milestone—seizing an elusive grail that had both beckoned and killed explorers for hundreds of years—than by touring the straits on a luxurious cruise?
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All his life the water at forest's edge had beckoned him to a journey, a journey he did not take until he was no longer a monkey but only a monkey's corpse.
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CreditCreditLam Yik Fei for The New York Times In a part of the world familiar with conflict, dislocation and ruthless ideological extremism, Hong Kong has long beckoned as an oasis of stability.
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Amelia certainly shouldered a lot of it though, because when she was beckoned to Meredith's trauma room, she opted to go visit another patient first because the two were still on the outs.
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It is staggering, after the West's slow response to ISIS in Syria and Iraq -- and the now years-long disaster that beckoned -- to observe such a slow reaction to ISIS's expansion in Libya.
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Lisa tries to take the advice, and goes out into the crowd to mingle with some of the men at the fest — but she doesn't quite "slay" as Sasha beckoned her to do.
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Guests were beckoned inside in twos and threes, to huddle behind the balustrades of the covered arcade, sipping chilled white wine and looking doubtfully at their tarp-coveted seats in the open air.
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"We have no idea — this'll be good, hold on," Ray said as he beckoned Matt back out onto the stage, where Kimmel asked him in front of audiences if he had a girlfriend.
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" CAMBRIDGE, England — Robert Macfarlane was partway up a mountain in Scotland when a fellow climber decided to lighten the mood by reciting some William Carlos Williams: "The descent beckons / as the ascent beckoned.
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At the Fridman booth in the Presents section, the painterly lines of Wura-Natasha Ogunji's sewn and inky multi-panel work "Unfinished" (2020), beckoned me closer to its enchanting tangles of indigo thread.
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Sixteen miles to the east, a second Trump-branded course is being built inside an even larger resort, Akoya Oxygen, where a recent promotion beckoned: Buy two villas and get two Mercedes-Benzes.
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Sitting at a long wooden desk, the four beckoned their audiences back to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the roots of why the framers even wrote an impeachment provision into the Constitution.
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There were moments when I yearned to help the person on the other end by offering advice, and others when the confessors beckoned back, wishing they could hear breathing or other signs of life.
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Rubble is about all that is left of St. Nick's Jazz Pub, the venerable Harlem hangout whose blood-red facade once beckoned jazz greats like Lena Horne and Miles Davis during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Ms. Schlapp's cellphone beckoned every few minutes as Mr. Schlapp, who said he had gained some 50 pounds during the campaign, ordered a green salad and offered to split an entree with his wife.
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As poorer people left their rural villages and towns, drawn by jobs and what I can only imagine was the enticing chance to know more than like 32 people in total, industrializing cities beckoned.
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History beckoned for Mickelson when he played a sumptuous approach to 15 feet at the 18th hole and the American held his head in his hands in stunned disbelief when the putt lipped out.
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Rahm and Elvira were both tied at 19 under on the 15th and a playoff beckoned, but Elvira hit the water with his first shot on the penultimate hole, leading to a double bogey.
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The children remind me of the ISIS social media posts of 2014, when recruiters beckoned young Muslim women in the West to a promised land where skin color, race, and tribe did not matter.
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A trio of mannequins, dressed in yellow vests ("Macron, you're screwed") and waving a tricolor, beckoned visitors to a nearby plot of land that had been lent to the group by an anonymous supporter.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, already in the possession of one such painting, has beckoned others like it from around the world and installed them in a small but engrossing show, Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes.
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"He's become more famous than me," Trump said of James Comey as he beckoned the then-FBI director over to him to shake hands at a law enforcement event at the White House in January.
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Before migration overwhelmed Europe last year, Idomeni was a tiny village, with 2500 people in the last census, just across the border from the Flamingo Casino, whose lights beckoned Greeks for a night of gambling.
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Tomlin allowed only two singles and a walk, but Indians Manager Terry Francona's itchy trigger finger beckoned the superb Andrew Miller from the bullpen with Jorge Soler at second and two out in the fifth.
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"At which point my grief-sounds ricocheted outside of language," he writes in "Beckoned," before the speaker passes out, swarmed by "those bees" of sound itself, as grief now attacks from the outside as well.
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And the mere fact that Mr. O'Rourke, and not Stacey Abrams or Andrew Gillum, is the near miss candidate of 2018 who is being beckoned most forcefully toward the White House has bothered some Democrats.
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Asked if a euro zone recession beckoned, Lagarde said the consequences for the economy would "clearly depend on the speed and strength" of the collective response to the epidemic, which euro zone governments should lead.
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Side Street Walking past the Iron Men, Hulks and Minions that beckoned to her in Times Square, Ana López stopped when she encountered Lady Liberty, whose green robes fluttered as she balanced herself on stilts.
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Until recently, this lesson was lost on a federal government that diminished, rather than dignified, the millions beckoned by the promise of something better on our shores, and left us all less safe in return.
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The Yamaha rider powered past as the checkered flag beckoned to win by a mere 0.019 of a second after Honda's Marquez had earlier seized the lead in a wheel-to-wheel duel between the two.
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A friend of the two men, Tamerlane Kangas, who was visiting them the night of the incident, testified that Mr. Parker beckoned for Mr. Kangas and Mr. Celestin to join him with the woman in sex.
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Having beckoned Mr. Pence to New York on Thursday, Mr. Trump nevertheless engaged in a final round of hand-wringing conversations with aides about whether he was ready to become partners with such a new acquaintance.
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When they were having a drink after a day of work, or a break for lunch, he would sit quietly while they chatted, until Clausen beckoned him to sit closer and put an arm around him.
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As if somehow beckoned by the sound of his own superlative music, like some kind of spectre of soul, you are visited by Stevie IRL Wonder, who glides into that Marriott as if to save you.
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But by the 12th grade, his obsession with race and racism was in full bloom, and Ole Miss beckoned to him as an American problem — one in his own backyard, one that he believed needed solving.
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Getting Obama onto the dance floor took some convincing, Juliet Eilperin, a Washington Post reporter traveling with the president, wrote: He tried to wave away the professional tango dancer who beckoned him to come and join.
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When it was suggested to him that Ali's greatest currency was the love he gave away freely and, in his later years, was returned a thousandfold, Rah beckoned the visitor closer and kissed her on the cheek.
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They rise six hours after sunset for morning prayers, summoned by a monk banging a semantron — a wood hammer on wood board — echoing the way Noah was said to have beckoned all living creatures into the ark.
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She waved her hands around when she was excited, slapped them on her thighs when she was amused, beckoned toward an invisible man to make a point, pushed that man away when the point had been made.
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There was a tattoo parlor, gallons of flowing grog — C champagne, this is fashion — and plenty of dancing before the crowds made their way onto the cobblestones and into the darkness, beckoned by their own voyage home.
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Ward Hall, an impresario of the carnival sideshow who beckoned customers with oddities and amazements, and who withstood decades of cultural change to be among the last of his kind in the United States, died on Aug.
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There, the holy men, many of whom have renounced all material possessions including clothing, sat around fires, lectured on the Hindu faith, beckoned passers-by for blessings in exchange for alms and provided their tents to lodgers.
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From the Genie emerging from his shiny gold lamp whenever he's beckoned to the magic carpet flying over Agrabah, it's hard to resist reaching into the movie theater or TV screen for a souvenir, like Aladdin and Abu.
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Egypt had just signed a peace treaty and dropped out of the conflict, and another young Arab leader — Lebanese Christian warlord Bashir Gemayel — beckoned Israel to join him in crushing the Palestinians and remaking the Middle East together.
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This, it seemed, was the real reason he had been beckoned to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, a day earlier: to resign under pressure and publicly blame Iran, as if he were an employee and not a sovereign leader.
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There are self-driving fridges that deliver cold beer when beckoned and ovens with cameras that can identify what you're cooking (though it should be noted that the former is still a prototype and the latter is nearly $600).
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It does make some sense; it always seemed odd that Mr. Allen, 523, would carry on in his high-intensity role while a new venture beckoned and the team forming to succeed him was eager to make a splash.
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Petrified before a void so vast that it could not be contained within thought, let alone a thinking being, it was impossible to know how long it would take to drift off into the abyss that silently beckoned me.
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History beckoned when he stuck his approach to about eight feet at the last, but his putt for 59 broke left to narrowly miss the hole, leaving Stone in the unusual position of looking dejected despite his dominant performance.
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Senegal's culture of hospitality, known as teranga, offers a welcoming vibe — don't be surprised if you are beckoned over by locals to share a meal or a gritty cup of cafe touba, the local pepper-and-clove flavored brew.
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On Soccer LIVERPOOL, England — As Liverpool's players drifted back into position, fresh from celebrating the goal by Roberto Firmino that had restored their lead against Manchester City, Jürgen Klopp beckoned halfway across the field to his midfielder, Emre Can.
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Mr. Driver also drew the admiration of Martin Scorsese, who beckoned him to discuss the role of Father Garupe, a 17th-century Jesuit priest on a mission from Portugal to Japan in "Silence," his passion project, now in theaters.
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He was doing a tiny opening set for BADBAGNOTGOOD at London's Roundhouse and beckoned the audience forward, so they were practically pressed up against the stage with the huge, empty sweep of the venue's rounded arc bending behind them.
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Not long afterward, Mr. Bursen said that Stephen Parrish, the program's director who is now dead, beckoned him into his office when he was passing by and said they knew who did it and named a Phud who had left school.
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As many have noted, in a jarring break with tradition, Eric and Donald Jr. both attend meetings with their father, and were seated at the head of the table when the President-elect beckoned tech executives to Trump Tower last month.
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After the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, and the Watts Riots, Saar found that her work beckoned a more three-dimensional medium and began taking commonplace objects and instrumentalizing them into works that referenced the world she lived in.
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To my eye, the figure, which was painted and gilded in the two-thousands, looked awful: her golden robes had a blinding shimmer, her eyes were a doll-like blue, and her lips could have beckoned from a lipstick ad.
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Asked at a news conference if a recession beckoned, she said the outturn for the economy would "clearly depend on the speed and strength" of the collective response to the epidemic, which had left the global economy "facing a major shock".
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Working with women of various races, shapes, and countenances, Barrese conjures the distinctly dazzling yet degrading position of she behind the lens, beckoned to be this or that, to become what the photographer (usually male) more or less overtly beseeches.
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Sales of business jets halved from their peak of 1,317 in 2008 as the financial crisis beckoned to 661 in 2016, according the U.S.-based General Aviation Manufacturers Association, but Trappier said last month there were signs at last of a recovery.
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We didn't get to sample the spa, which offers hydrotherapy and body wraps, but the well-appointed gym, with more than a dozen cross-training and weight machines, free weights and ample room to stretch (and, of course, a killer view), beckoned.
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After watching his YouTube videos and Skyping with him, Mr. Chu beckoned Mr. Golding, who had never acted before, to Los Angeles for a chemistry read with Ms. Wu. "I was just expecting Jon and Constance and maybe a cameraman," he said.
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Hayes soon beckoned, and Bruce joined him as an assistant in 1966, in charge of a bruising offensive line that paved the way for the Buckeyes' winning three Big Ten titles, two Rose Bowls and the 1968 national championship, going 43-14 during that period.
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Ever since HBO scored big early last year with a docu-series about Robert Durst that ended with his seeming to confess to murder, the immediacy of the open-ended true crime format, also seen in the Netflix hit "Making a Murderer," has beckoned imitators.
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On one, graphic cartoons depicted a man suffering from each Ebola symptom — bloody diarrhea, fever, bleeding nose and gums, muscle and joint pain, bloody vomiting and skin eruptions — as he is beckoned into a neat, white health post by a welcoming lab-coated caretaker.
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Back at the main stage Sunday night, the song's first minute saw the din of the crowd shift from excited to hushed to abuzz with confusion as Bush's vocals—which, to many of the crowd's unacquainted ears, could be confused with Lorde—beckoned on.
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That's because, just as the check arrived, HQ beckoned: The live trivia app had announced a surprise game, and if I wanted a shot at answering 12 multiple-choice questions and vying for a share of the $18,000 pot, I had to tap in instantly.
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Following Abdu Sulwon's killing, security forces raided Maung Hna Ma village, torching at least one home, arresting several men and sending others into hiding, according to accounts given by women there who beckoned reporters from a river bank to tell of their missing husbands and sons.
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" Following the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hulbert maintains that it was being caught in "the flow," the feeling of the sudden loss of oneself in an activity, that preserved Lang Lang's sanity: "The prize always beckoned, but Lang was finding ways to get lost in the process.
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Frank Bruni HALCOTTSVILLE, N.Y. — On a recent weekend at the farmers market here, Fred Margulies sat under a "Vote Where It Counts" sign and beckoned second-home owners to re-register in this area upstate instead of wherever their main residences were — New York City, most likely.
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With their curios around them, a growing number of New York friends and a Hudson River view from the kitchen — a feature especially prized by Mr. Johnson, who loves to cook and tries to find a cooking class whenever they travel — New Paltz beckoned less often.
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If McCraven's music beckoned and absorbed, the Duo's music felt rougher and rawer, with Mr. Taylor's loud polyrhythms, played on drums and plucked on an amplified mbira, the hand-held African thumb piano; and with Mr. Mazurek's sense of color and texture, his trumpet run through electronic effects.
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"Let's set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram," the caption beckoned, and people responded by liking the egg photo more than 52 million times — nearly three times above the paltry 18 million likes previously bestowed upon a photo of Jenner as a baby.
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The idea was when you got your ticket, the ticket agent would give you a once-over, and if you fit this list of 20-some behavioral cues that might be indicative that you might be a hijacker, you might be beckoned over for kind of a private search.
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But in the demo, she was seated at a table, where she beckoned for me to join her, after which she proceeded to stare at me with Marina Abramovic-like intensity (she was, in fact, designed to mimic the famous 'The Artist Is Present' performance piece), daring me to stare back.
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I've taken a lot of interviewees to the Whiskey—from honky tonk queens to Chinese throat singers—but Yellow Eyes is the first black metal band I've beckoned down into the cool, dark basement bar across the street from VICE's now-former office in Williamsburg, an astronomically hip neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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Initially, much of the credit pumped out by banks ended up in the stockmarket, but following its crash last summer, property beckoned as one of the few decent investment options in China (capital controls, which have been further tightened recently, make it hard for Chinese savers to invest their money abroad).
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And, always, the smell of honeysuckle beckoned my siblings and me to its vine where we sipped sweet nectar from the flowers until, as always, my grandmother called from the kitchen window, "Let that honeysuckle grow like y'all trying to grow," and we ran off to whatever next thing the summer brought us.
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The Maidan — where thousands had stayed through frigid nights, building barricades, huddling around oil-drum fires, tearing up cobblestones, filling molotov cocktails, singing the national anthem every hour on the hour, enduring the tear gas and police batons of a half-dozen botched raids — beckoned both men, and they headed for Ukraine.
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Just as you are wondering where to focus your attention in the panopticon (based on Jeremy Bentham's 23th-century design of a penitentiary) of character projections swirling before you, you are beckoned to enter adjoining exhibition rooms to pry further into their stories featured in a series of trans-punk fiction films.
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Kives, who died on Tuesday and was 87, started out as a fur trapper in Winnipeg, sold cookery door-to-door, and then founded K-Tel in the 60s—the makers of "As Seen on TV" gadgets that first beckoned from the soft glow of tube TVs, and then made their way onto the internet.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pondering whether he'll be receiving a noogie or a wedgie this Wednesday at Trump Tower (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Tech industry titans like Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, and Elon Musk's Elon Musk have been beckoned to Supreme Leader-elect Donald Trump's lair for a meeting on Wednesday.
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A circus-style ragtag production that beckoned visitors on 22017-2300 Ocean Front Walk — it's concrete, so not a "boardwalk" because there is no wood, Ms. Solomon insisted on noting — the Freakshow featured among its many attractions a sword-swallower, a "little lady" and a "werewolf" man from Mexico who grew hair all over his face.
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A circus-style ragtag production that beckoned visitors on 22017-2300 Ocean Front Walk — it's concrete, so not a "boardwalk" because there is no wood, Ms. Solomon insisted on noting — the Freakshow featured among its many attractions a sword-swallower, a "little lady" and a "werewolf" man from Mexico who grew hair all over his face.
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For eight generations in the life of a city that changed constantly around them, the twin towers on Norfolk Street beckoned the faithful on Manhattan's Lower East Side: first, Baptists, whose congregation was the forerunner of the Riverside Church; then Methodists; and then, for 122 years, Orthodox Jews from Eastern Europe, who called the synagogue Beth Hamedrash Hagodol — the Great House of Study.
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"We had just won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Pulp Fiction," remembers Travolta, who'd returned to his home in Northern California excited about his new career prospects when he was beckoned to the TV by his father, who'd been a former football player and coach who'd worked with the legendary Vince Lombardi and was very familiar with Simpson.
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As Bobby and Shelly offer assurances to their daughter — shielding her from arrest, offering to pay for the damage to Gersten's apartment and forgiving the small matter of Becky's whipping her mother off the hood of her moving car — Shelly gets beckoned out of the diner by Red, the criminal first seen making a coin appear in Richard Horne's mouth and the latest in a long line of shady boyfriends.
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Roughly 750 great heads of hair (among them, Anna Wintour's signature bob) boarded the ship, first for a silent auction mingled with the Intrepid's exhibitions: a Bottega Veneta duffel beckoned in front of a Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber, L.A. Eyeworks sunglasses sparkled beside a North American FJ-3 Fury, and a set of Jo Malone candles with a wool and alpaca throw promised comfort beneath a giant propeller.
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