Immediately, a surge of solidarity and happiness coursed through me.
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Last year, more than 2,600 people coursed through the Alley.
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Although Grant himself was upstanding, self-dealing coursed through his administration.
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Embarrassment coursed through me, taking complete control of my nervous system.
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That morning, my stomach churned and adrenaline coursed through my veins.
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A raging storm surge coursed through its streets during Hurricane Irma.
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Dissolving all individual restraint, they coursed with uncontrollable instinct and emotion.
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Further, just beyond the courtyard's edge, a section of the Seine coursed.
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Placid seas reared up in giant waves and rainwater coursed through streets.
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A stream coursed across the property of slightly less than an acre.
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Korski argued that undertones of racism and elitism coursed through the Leave campaign.
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Music coursed through the building, a mansion with a golf cart out front.
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In Carolina Beach, water coursed through the streets, carrying tree limbs and debris.
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Previously, neighbours argued over the limited water that coursed through channels to the town.
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Oil coursed downward with other global markets as concerns grew that the China-U.
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A tree smashed through Ireland Baldwin's driveway as a storm coursed through California on Friday.
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But instead of skepticism, I coursed with idealism, and an almost stupid sense of commitment.
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We arrived at another plantation and stopped near where a stream coursed through the bog.
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Matters of war, race and religion coursed through his life in a publicly turbulent way.
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Clinton: Trump campaign built of prejudice, paranoia Race and racism have always coursed through American politics.
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Demonstrators coursed through the streets of Algiers on Friday chanting, "We didn't vote," over and over.
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I was in great pain, but as the liquid coursed through me I began to feel stronger.
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A buoyant, optimistic grassroots tech culture coursed through Palo Alto in the late '60s and early '70s.
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Eventually he was able to determine that about 40 to 50 milliamperes of electricity coursed through his arm.
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But by that time, waves of mud and debris had coursed through entire neighborhoods and people were trapped.
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Soon its purifying waters coursed through the land, bringing the devout to its banks to wash away sins.
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He said he felt "a sudden burst of anxiety" — his chest tightened, and adrenaline coursed through his body.
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Where water once coursed through the Slims River basin, dry riverbeds are now subject to frequent dust storms.
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Themes of love, given or withheld, coursed through the dreams, as did the need for resolution and even forgiveness.
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A white van coursed through narrow roads along the monsoon-soaked coastline of Kerala, a state in southwestern India.
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He describes gazing in awe at art and ancient artifacts as psilocybin and mescaline analogues coursed around his synapses.
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"As some attacks coursed among them, four members of security forces near the pit shot them," the statement said.
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Today was the day I had slated to prep an elaborate, multi-coursed Thanksgiving meal for 19 close friends.
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They died by lightning, which coursed through the wet ground, climbed up their legs and fatally jolted their hearts.
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This past winter, demand for Russian natural gas surged to unprecedented levels when Siberian arctic weather coursed throughout Europe.
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Yet, somehow, an electricity coursed through the final Fever parties last weekend that none of us expected to feel.
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Inhaling as Pang lit the end, Pat tasted cherries in the smooth cloud of smoke that coursed into his mouth.
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Some $21998 billion coursed out of EM equity and debt funds in June after an $19983 billion outflow in May.
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Out of that primordial soup of grievance and conspiracy theory grew an organic theme that coursed through the entire event.
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His body coursed with tension, and the drops of sweat, pooling at his feet, confirmed that he was working hard.
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Giants 21, Bengals 20 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Instead of cheers, a nervous ripple coursed through the crowd at MetLife Stadium.
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Scores of artist-luxury brand collaborations — Jeff Koons and Louis Vuitton, Versace and Andy Warhol — have coursed through the marketplace.
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It goes horrifically awry from the moment she arrives (don't Google "big, juicy natural tomatoes," unless that's your thing of coursed).
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Five of the 11 men executed by Texas this year said that the drug burned as it coursed through their bodies.
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Mr. Paxton's professional trajectory as a songwriter, record producer and sometime performer coursed from rock 'n' roll to contemporary Christian music.
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The two-song mini-EP is a departure, completely drained of the synthesizers that have always coursed through their euphoric melodies.
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But tests later showed that the river water was improperly treated and coursed through aging pipes and fixtures, releasing toxic lead.
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NOSAJ THING AND DAITO MANABE A deep undertow coursed through the set by Nosaj Thing (the Los Angeles producer Jason Chung).
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There's none of the emo-nihilism that's coursed through his tracks in the past, just plenty of quick-fire, boastful non-sequiturs.
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Water coursed through a subway tunnel still under construction, carrying the Seine into neighborhoods in which no one expected it to go.
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Where the river once coursed without break, settling into a familiar pattern of placid water followed by white rapids, now it bottomed out.
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Crampton's knotty compositions coursed with layered synthesizers, intoned vocals, and hypnotic, MIDI-like guitar, at times sounding like a vivid video game soundtrack.
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Ms. Pinckney, a school librarian, said that the experience had been "emotionally excruciating" and that her reactions had coursed from tears to fury.
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Anger coursed through his recital of his pedigree — captain of the football team, his admission to the top law school in the country.
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Rivers of rainwater coursed down the steps and streets of Matera, power-washing the city, cleansing it of anything that wasn't millennia-old.
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Its dank aesthetic coursed through movies and shows like The Matrix, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, The Fifth Element, and the original Ghost in the Shell.
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Unlike eastern Henan, a plain coursed through by the Yellow River that is prone to flooding and, historically, famine, Luoyang is on high ground.
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At some point during the night, as the euphoria coursed through me, I lay on my stomach and tried to fly down the stairs.
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Way Bay visualizes the currents of unbridled creativity that have coursed and flowed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area over the last two centuries.
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To their right coursed the Moy, dark as stout and in murderous spate; to their left high conifers stood like rows of encumbered coatracks.
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The secretiveness which Lincoln wholly lacked, Stanton had in marked degree; the charity which Stanton could not feel, coursed from every pore in Lincoln.
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In California, they coursed through dozens of cities from Mt. Shasta in the north down to Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.
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He was pretty convinced he had broken something in his middle finger, through which a steady and piercing voltage of pain now vibrantly coursed.
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The country's extensive security forces have been mostly passive as citizens have coursed through the streets of Algiers shouting slogans against Mr. Bouteflika's candidacy.
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Magic coursed through Valyria and the Targaryen dynasty was rife with prophesy, but magic seemed to take a nap when the last dragon snuffed it.
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Twitter said more than 75 million election-related tweets coursed through its service on election day, more than double than on election day in 2012.
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Some of the worst flooding occurred in Charleston, where knee-high floodwaters coursed through the streets — high enough for some residents to navigate by kayak.
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The forecast was for scattered showers and patches of sun, but the sky opened up and a punishing rain coursed down from 7AM until late afternoon.
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It goes without saying that paradox and complexity coursed through the artist's thinking as he contemplated a project as massive, and personal, as the this one.
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The calls are among the most strident examples of how issues of race have coursed through two of the most high-profile contests this election season.
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The religious right felt similarly, preaching that evil forces coursed through the culture and that Satan and his minions were constantly attacking in veiled, hidden ways.
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The open road, heavy with symbolism and full of promise, has long coursed through popular culture, with the journey at least as rewarding as the destination.
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Demonstrations were boisterous but broadly peaceful, even as tension and worry coursed through protests from Boston Common, the nation's oldest public park, to Hot Springs, Ark.
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His ideas coursed through American defense strategy for decades, swaying presidents, attracting acolytes, infuriating opponents and igniting furious debates that ricochet through official circles to this day.
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In the process, he imparts to his readers a sense of how the thrill of revolution coursed through not just his subjects' veins but also his own.
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A decade ago, the waterway coursed pristinely into Indawgyi Lake, but it has since become choked with mud and chemicals from an illegal hydraulic K.I.A. gold mine.
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Fears of a government shutdown coursed through Washington, D.C., on Thursday, as House and Senate leaders negotiated a spending bill and federal agencies prepared to furlough workers.
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A CT scan revealed a tumor that extended into the muscles of her back, coursed behind her liver and invaded the body's largest vein, the inferior vena cava.
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The Merah killings were experienced less as a surprise than as a vindication, a validation of cultural anxieties that had long coursed beneath the surface of French political debate.
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Now, research from Yale University suggests the blood that coursed through their giant frames would have been warm, meaning they might not have been cold-blooded creatures after all.
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The East Village scene — more than the art world of SoHo, where a few remnants remain of the history that coursed through the streets — disappeared virtually without a trace.
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A mesmeric set of canons for nine instruments, it sounds at once simple and elusive, at times blanketed with a still calm, at others coursed by a polyrhythmic, microtonal blizzard.
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Simpson had reported on Chinese contributions to Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, and later thought the "river of foreign money" that coursed through the Clinton Global Initiative smelled fishy.
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Instead of a redemptive counterpoint, Kanye and Cudi offered up a dark and emotional distillation of the hyper-masculine recklessness that's coursed through Kanye's work over the past two years.
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For nearly 18 months after Flint's water source was switched while under state financial management, residents drank and bathed with improperly treated water that coursed through pipes, scraping away toxic lead.
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Even before the most recent evisceration of limits on campaign spending, in 230, $244 million in outside money coursed through the national political system, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Public frustration over stagnant economic fortunes is helping fuel the increasingly disruptive protests that have coursed through Hong Kong over the last three months, according to a longtime Asia politics watcher.
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The next night I attended a $53 late-night coursed dinner at Sushi-san featuring a miniature version of the absurdly expensive Wagyu sandwich that's probably been filling your Instagram feed.
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Or a wavering Obama administration that, as in Iran in 2009, and Syria since 2011, has wrapped itself in righteous caution as the winds of change coursed through the Middle East?
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But on Monday, some residents, awash in flooding from the Lumber River, were stunned after the areas were hit with more than a foot of rain and floodwaters coursed the street.
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"All came from dust, and all return to dust," he said, clasping his hands in front of his broad frame and looking down, as a murmur coursed through the plenary hall.
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All three companies find personalized ways to showcase couples' love of local beers, home brews, wines, and ciders by hosting on-site tastings at stations and beverage pairings for coursed dinners.
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The evening on Mulberry Street was already thickening with the aroma of fried dough and grilled sausage when a knight in faded armor coursed through the crowd in a shopping cart.
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Political campaigns coursed through people's lives, but they also engaged in more mundane activities, like taking their kids to the park, escorting kids to school, going to the movies or getting married.
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Pint-size drum majorettes, dancing girls dressed as rain-forest frogs and thumping reggaeton music coursed through a canyon of Puerto Rican flags along Fifth Avenue in New York City on Sunday.
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" But late Tuesday night, FEMA press secretary Lizzie Litzow changed coursed, writing: "At the last minute we were able to procure the test kits from the private market without evoking the DPA.
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I drove, and each time he texted — each time his sweet little name lit up my phone — my blood coursed with pleasure, as though I were tethered to a heartbeat miles away.
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It took the spacetime ripple on December 26th a full second to pass through LIGO's detectors, as opposed to the previous signal, which coursed through our planet in a fraction of that time.
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Members of Mr. Conklin's family and his girlfriend spent the morning standing at the river's edge, awaiting news as Coast Guard helicopters buzzed overhead and boats with search teams coursed through the water.
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The same economic upheavals that brought wealth to a new American collecting class coursed through Paris in the mid-19th century, when the young Bazille arrived from Montpellier to train as a doctor.
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Regeni's death, the diplomat continued, signaled Egypt's broader direction: Regeni had fallen victim to the paranoia about foreigners that now coursed through Egyptian society; since the revolution, even small interactions could be fraught.
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Trump's real estate and business career are coursed with litigation and the Republican has run his presidential campaign alleging everything from voter fraud to widespread "rigging" by the political establishment and the media.
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New research published today in Science Advances suggests the impact of the Chicxulub meteor spawned large seismic waves that coursed through the planet, reaching mid-oceanic ridges where tectonic plates rub against each other.
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For Plan B (20173), her sculptural installation in the Turkish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, a network of multicolored pipes coursed through the space, and were connected to several reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration modules.
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The Sciences saw an increase in funding and the Humanities saw the end of "the End of Anthropocentrism," for the blood that coursed through the earth was unquestionably human—type O-negative, universally transfusable.
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We were there for Derek Lam's rave-reviewed '70s-inspired line and Delpozo's out-of-this-world romantic fantasy pieces that walked down the runway to a live orchestra (and, of coursed, stunned supporters).
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An emphasis on suicide prevention coursed throughout the evening, between Jared Leto paying tribute to Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell and rapper Logic sharing the stage with suicide survivors and a suicide prevention hotline.
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On Sunday, the clashes had mostly stopped but fear still coursed through northeastern Syria, with residents unsure whether the Turks or the government of President Bashar al-Assad would soon take over the area.
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Racial tensions coursed through every aspect of the O.J. trial, including where the trial would be held (urban and heterogeneous Downtown L.A. or tony and lily-white Santa Monica?), to the makeup of the jury.
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But before many glaciers recede beyond view in the coming decades, or die completely, there are exceptionally accessible places to see these glorious natural phenomena, which for millennia have coursed down mountains and through valleys.
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Hofstadter described a miasma of "conspiratorial fantasy" that had coursed through American public life since the earliest days of the nation, a litany of feverish plots involving the Bavarian Illuminati, the Freemasons and Jesuit priests.
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Some $208 billion coursed into tech stocks, the 21.6th consecutive week of inflows, despite hefty falls in Facebook and Twitter shares last week causing anxiety about the resilience of the FAANGs (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google).
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In an interview with the Mexican newspaper La Jornada in 2012, to mark the 40th anniversary of his musical career, Juan Gabriel said both the pain and the joys of his childhood coursed through his music.
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PARIS — At least 10 people were killed and 37 injured after a fast-moving fire that may have been intentionally set coursed through an eight-story building in a residential part of western Paris on Tuesday.
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Anger over the circumstances of Ms. Arroyo's death coursed through the emergency workers assembled outside, who came from across the city — from Brownsville, Brooklyn to South Jamaica, Queens — and from as far away as Boston and Chicago.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But this vulgarity that exists represented primarily by now pushed by the President but now coursed on either side of the isle has made it much worse and much harder to do anything in this country.
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Anti-gay sentiment has coursed through Iowa politics for years, particularly among some vocal social conservative groups, but the state was among the first to legalize same sex marriage 10 years ago, something that Buttigieg acknowledged on Tuesday.
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Bonkaz name has become synonymous with New Gen ever since his 2015 grime anthem "We Run the Block" coursed through the veins of the UK underground with rowdy bars like "Free up the mandem, beat up the Feds".
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Two years later, the strain of virus that once coursed through Wilson's veins lives on in freezers and petri dishes a few buildings over from where she died, as researchers race to find possible treatments for the next time.
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For a total of 118 days this year, river water coursed across miles of designated New Orleans public green space, then into Lake Pontchartrain, then out into the Gulf of Mexico, where it did an enormous amount of damage.
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But the pain that coursed through my body would remind me that they were here to stay, and that their pending growth loomed large in the uncertainty and fear written all over my mother and my grandmother's dark faces.
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Though the much-vaunted grunginess of Yeezus had been patented on the G.O.O.D. Music compilation Cruel Summer from the year prior, (see: "Sin City") a particular raging energy coursed through the later album that gave it an extra kick.
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Such casual sales pitches for lethal merchandise coursed through the carpeted halls of this wealthy Arab city's convention center this week, when more than 1,200 military technology companies and contractors from around the world convened to hawk their wares.
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Museum director Lawrence Rinder sought to visualize for gallery-goers the currents of unbridled creativity that have coursed and flowed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area over the last two centuries, beginning roughly with the Spanish colonization of the peninsula.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Thermal coal and gas prices have coursed into a bull run, propelled by particularly strong demand across Asia, where electricity consumption is surging thanks to healthy economic growth just as seasonal needs rise with the start of summer.
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Their reporting has coursed through conservative media, where it has been held up as an example of fair and hard-hitting investigative reporting on an issue that has been a flashpoint of controversy between the White House, Congress and the press.
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It is, indeed, as repulsive as I've been told, but for a brief moment the power of the door girl coursed through me; I was so ready to watch him make the long walk back into the cold at my bidding.
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Talk of a shutdown had coursed through the magazine's offices for days, and although a meeting with management had been scheduled for Friday, Mr. Hayes, the editor, emailed his staff beforehand to say he was still unsure of their fate.
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It was easier to ignore a landscape designed as a spider web for child sexual abuse than to give up the soundtrack of our lives, the catchy songs that coursed through memories of weddings, bar mitzvahs and other good times.
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The sun coursed down like a river, washing over her and the house's weathered brick, all the way to the rhododendrons in the back, which stood guard at the border where her yard abutted a small park with a pond.
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Many people feel left behind and neglected by the government, and their frustration is fueling increasingly disruptive protests that have coursed through the city, said Dodwell, who is executive director at HK-APEC Trade Policy Group and a former Financial Times Asia correspondent.
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His announcement comes amid consternation within the GOP over Trump's attack on the parents of a slain US soldier and his refusal last week to endorse several key Republican figures -- though he reversed coursed and endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan, Arizona Sen.
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On a night when those competing emotions coursed through a packed-to-the-rafters Wrigley Field, the Cubs kept their hopes of a World Series title alive Sunday by beating back the Cleveland Indians and their own nerves with a 21-23 victory.
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Ms. Izen, 68, who was at her son's wedding in New York when the storm struck, received a panicked call from her tenant: A surge protector caught fire when too much electricity coursed through the house, causing a carpet to catch fire.
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We sat there in the shadow of Mt. Whitney one morning, and later, for that afternoon's antibiotic infusion, overlooking the vast expanse of Mono Lake, as the drugs meant to keep the infection in Jim's liver at bay coursed into his body.
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The organizers had stumbled into a conflict that has dogged women's organizing from the very beginning: Of all the tensions that have coursed through the women's movement, none has ever been quite so pronounced as the one between white and black women.
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But there was also a sense that Russia's media and social-media machinery had contributed to the informational chaos — the fake news and conspiracy theories that coursed through social-media feeds — that characterized the final stretch of the election, to, it turned out, Trump's benefit.
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She has struggled in surveys measuring her perceived trustworthiness and an active federal investigation, especially one buoyed by evidence that top secret material coursed through her account, could negate one of her main selling points for becoming commander in chief: Her national security resume.
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Since then, he has witnessed the insidiousness of lingering trauma as it has coursed through the bloodstream of the community and the various ways it has revealed itself, especially in the children who were in the school and in the siblings of the victims.
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In New York, Monifa Bandele has spent the past 17 years working to get citizens to video record police interactions, yet as the Facebook Live recording of Philando Castile's shooting in Minnesota coursed across social media on Wednesday night, she could not bring herself to watch.
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As you headed out the door, the mental Thanks, Obama that coursed through your body was loud enough to make you feel like POTUS was doing you a personal solid by not charging you for yet another thing you have to pony up for as a woman.
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Salesforce contributed an additional $5 million to the campaign in favor of the initiative, known as Proposition C. Mr. Benioff and Mr. Dorsey sparred on Twitter over Proposition C in October, fueling a debate that coursed through the tech industry in the run-up to the election.
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Their request for a change of venue highlighted the extent to which politics has coursed through the prosecution of Manafort, who U.S. President Donald Trump defended as a "brave man" even after a jury convicted him of tax and bank fraud in the first trial that ended last week.
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Thanks to a rare orbital alignment between Europa and Io, an international team of researchers has identified and tracked a pair of lava waves as they coursed around Loki Patera, which is larger than Lake Ontario, and with a surface area of 21,22021 square miles (21,500 square km).
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Intimations of mortality had always coursed through Warhol's art and the 2205s brought new ones in eerie pictures of skulls, and, by implication, in "Shadows," a 239-plus panel abstract tour de force in which darkness has no source and no end: It's just there, foreboding, miasmic, waiting.
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New loans in China surged to a record high in the first half of the year as government spending coursed through the economy, but that new credit is generating less growth than before as China struggles with overcapacity and entrenched roadblocks to a more efficient and productive economy.
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Nearly a quarter-century later, Mr. Hood has resurfaced with "In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York's City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis" (Columbia University Press, $40), which explores the blue blood that has coursed through the city's veins since before the American Revolution.
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In the decade-long war with Boko Haram that has coursed through northeast Nigeria and spread to three neighboring countries, more than 500 women have been deployed as suicide bombers or apprehended before they carried out their deadly missions — a number that terrorism experts say exceeds any other conflict in history.
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" His statement at this year's New York Times Art for Tomorrow Conference in Doha, Qatar, in many ways summed up the theme — sometimes explicit but often unsaid — that coursed through the third annual convocation of artists, collectors, curators, museum directors, public officials and others: "Boundaries, Identity and the Public Realm.
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A cheery mood coursed through festivities that lacked the tension of the 2014 Sochi Paralympics, when Ukraine sent only its flag-bearer to the opening ceremony to protest Russia's intervention in the Crimean Peninsula, or the undertones of the 2016 Rio Paralympics, which were stained by financial turmoil and meager ticket sales.
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A Chinese Communist Party directive in 1951 ordered that the admiration for the United States that coursed through Chinese society must be redirected into "hate the U.S. imperialists," with the goal of "encouraging national self-confidence and self-respect" — forever joining the yin of hating America with the yang of loving China.
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"It was easier to ignore a landscape designed as a spider web for child sexual abuse than to give up the soundtrack of our lives, the catchy songs that coursed through memories of weddings, bar mitzvahs and other good times," she writes, referring to the previous allegations that managed not to stick to Jackson's legacy.
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The $600 million investment in Bruin Sports is part of an even larger wave of financing that has coursed toward sports and its related media properties in recent years as the market for scripted television has collapsed, sports franchise values have soared and younger consumers have made clear that they value experiences over possessions.
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And save for the electric performances from Kendrick Lamar and the cast of Broadway musical Hamilton, that safeness coursed through the veins of entire ceremony last night, from the downtempo performances from artists few real people actually care about, to the awards themselves—Taylor Swift for Album of the Year could not have been a more pedestrian choice.
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Pederson's seventh-inning solo home run only cemented the Dodgers' 23-21 victory over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night, but it stood as a picture-perfect proxy for the exhilaration that coursed through the stadium — and the Los Angeles dugout — as the Dodgers ensured that an enthralling World Series would reach its seven-game limit.
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Questions about the source and quality of Texas's execution drugs have been particularly acute in the past year, since in their final moments of life, five of the 11 inmates who Texas put to death in 2018 said the drug they were injected with, which is supposed to be painless, felt like it was burning as it coursed through their bodies.
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How we know: Our reporters obtained a recording of a phone call with the Qatari ambassador to Somalia, in which a businessman close to the emir of Qatar said that militants had carried out a bombing in the Somali city of Bosaso to advance Qatari interests and drive out the U.A.E. Hundreds of thousands of protesters coursed through the streets of San Juan, demanding that Gov.
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Picture young Less: ten years old, in his first year of wearing the gold-rimmed glasses that would return to him, thirty years later, when a Paris shopkeeper recommended a pair and a thrill of sad recognition and shame coursed through his body—the tall boy in glasses in right field, his hair as gold-white as old ivory, covered now by a black-and-yellow baseball cap, wandering in the clover with a dreamy look in his eyes.
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It looks at New York in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 2001, not really making a graspable argument but instead floating through a mist of ideas and observations about utopia; destruction; art's expressive potential; Duchamp on the risks of becoming a "successful" artist; Tiravanija's audience-participation performance art; the big money that coursed through the mainstream art market of the 1990s; the architect Rem Koolhaas's take on Manhattan's buildings; and John Cage's delicious, Zen-inspired contention that nothing could be regarded as something.
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But the killings were widely experienced less as a surprise than as a strange sort of vindication, a validation of cultural anxieties that had for years coursed just beneath the surface of French political debate: the alleged unwillingness of French Muslims to submit to the norms of French republicanism; the perceived ultraviolence of the young black and Arab postcolonial Frenchmen of the banlieues; and a feeling that those banlieues, under the sway of violence and Islam, were slipping out from the control of the République much as its overseas colonies once had.
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I had put out an album called Part-Time Woman and one of the songs on the album was called 'I'm Afraid of Men' and I had just come out as trans that year when I wrote the song and I was thinking a lot about my relationship to masculinity as someone who has experienced it from a lot of different perspectives: As someone who has embodied it, as someone who was coursed into it, as someone who has walked away from it, as someone who still incurs violence from it.
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That flurry of small disjointed gestures coursed through the line and became frenzied at the front, when the skier had to unzip every pocket to find where he'd stuck his ticket money or his badge, and hand it to the lift operator to punch, and then he had to put it back in his pocket, and readjust his gloves, and join his two poles together, the tip of one stuck in the basket of the other so that they could be held with one hand—all this while climbing the small slope in the open space where he had to be ready to position the T-bar under his bottom and let it tug him jerkily upward.
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