Yellowing lace curtains are drawn tight over the windows, shutting out the weak winter light.
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Large-scale research projects cost money, though, and when it comes to gun violence, the federal purse strings have been drawn tight for decades.
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The house boasts two swimming pools, multiple cars and at least 20 windows, all of which had their curtains drawn tight when a Reuters reporter visited on Friday.
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On men, nankeen or doeskin breeches, which, in 1794, were contentious enough to lead to imprisonment, were drawn tight against the body, delineating every nuance of the anatomy.
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His father George had been a tribal chief and activist, negotiating in a suit, paid for by a whip-round among the Secwepemc Nation, drawn tight round his tubercular frame.
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A large Jewish event expected to congregate 92,000 people at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey New Year's Day has drawn tight security presence after anti-Semitic incidents in the New York area.
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But the reality is that this does happen to people, and there's nothing wrong with taking an extra moment to make sure the blinds on that digital window to your soul are drawn tight.
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"I get up every morning feeling guilty because I didn't stop it," Ms. Hodgkinson said Wednesday at her home in Belleville, where the blinds are drawn tight and photographs of her husband adorn a living room wall.
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Twelve members of the group stood on melting blocks of ice, nooses drawn tight around their necks to symbolise the 12 months remaining until the next summit, when the Paris deal enters a make-or-break implementation phase.
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Twelve members of the group stood on melting blocks of ice, nooses drawn tight around their necks to symbolize the 12 months remaining until the next summit, when the Paris deal enters a make-or-break implementation phase.
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An Austrian Bundespolizei blouson. A modern nylon MA-1 flight jacket. A blouson or blouse jacket is a jacket that is drawn tight at the waist, causing it to blouse out and hang over the waistband. Some of them have a hood.
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In this variation the knot's working end is taken round the loop in the direction of the original round turn, then threaded back up through the original round turn before the knot is drawn tight. The Yosemite bowline is often used in climbing.
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The blouse jacket or blouson is garment drawn tight at the waist with blousing hanging over the waist band. The new style of man's chetten lose blouse coat is made of stronger material or with inner lining, which can be worn alone or as a jacket or over a separate top is related to. It is related to the Eisenhower jacket.
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She is taken to an "old house," "three stories" tall with shades "drawn tight to shut out prying eyes." Beverly waits for the men to enter, then follows through the back door. Inside, she overhears them gloating and planning to "deliver another note demanding twenty-five thousand." Climbing the stairs, she discovers Shirley in a locked room on the second floor.
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Before Prout is able to react, the open end of a coal sack is dragged over his head and drawn tight around him. His arms trapped, and unable to release himself, Prout staggers to the door and flounders along the passage to seek help. Astonished onlookers assume that a drunken coalman is playing a prank. Loder and the other prefects disdain from handling the filthy figure, but members of the Remove – possibly with some foreknowledge of who is really inside the sack – volunteer to barge the figure out of the school.
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The Dahmers had been sleeping in shifts after receiving numerous death threats throughout the year. The Dahmers had a shotgun by their nightstand in case they heard gunshots and always had the curtains drawn tight at night to make it harder for night riders to see into their home. On January 10, 1966, the Dahmer home was attacked by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The family woke to the sound of a shotgun being discharged and the sound of gas jugs being thrown through the windows.
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In treating müllerian agenesis, the Vecchietti procedure is a laparoscopic surgical technique that produces a vagina of dimensions (depth and width) comparable to those of a normal vagina (ca. 8.0 cm. deep). A small, plastic sphere (“olive”) is threaded (sutured) against the vaginal area; the threads are drawn though the vaginal skin, up through the abdomen, and through the navel. There, the threads are attached to a traction device, and then daily are drawn tight so that the “olive” is pulled inwards and stretches the vagina, by approximately 1.0 cm.
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Initial reports from Michael Fossum and Piers Sellers suggested that the boom was damping out motion rapidly, making it a good work platform. Piers Sellers said at one point: "I felt almost no motions at all, just a few inches each way, very few motions". When standing on the boom while it was moving, they described it as very smooth. Fossum had a problem with his , which was damaged after he made a mistake; not realising he had left the tether in a locked position, he expected it to be automatically drawn tight.
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According toHMS > Dotterell there were three great chains resting on 10 pontoons (Schneider, > 115). According to Masterman (chief pharmacist to the Paraguayan forces, > whose medical duties took him to Humaitá) they rested on "lighters" – which > also served as floating prisons – and on rows of piles. The latter failed > (he said) "from the necessity of fishing them when the river was high": > Masterman, 139. The [Brazilian] ironclads fired for three months at these > pontoons and canoes, sinking all of them, when, of course, the chain went to > the bottom, as the river there is about 700 yards wide, and the chain could > not be drawn tight without intermediate supports.
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Even heavily armoured vessels might have been impeded by the chain boom, but it turned out to have an Achilles' heel: it could not be drawn tight enough without intermediate floating supports – and these might be sunk by naval gunfire. Burton's description of the chain boom was: > The chain, which consisted of seven twisted together, passed diagonally > through a kind of brick tunnel. On this side [of the River Paraguay] it was > made fast to a windlass supported by a house about 100 yards from the bank. > Nearer the battery stood a still larger capstan: the latter, however, wanted > force to haul tight the chain.
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The remains of Tollund Man shortly after his discovery On 6 May 1950, peat cutters (Viggo and Emil Hojgaard) in the Bjældskovdal peat bog, west of Silkeborg, Denmark discovered a corpse in the peat layer which appeared so fresh that they at first believed they had discovered a recent murder victim. The Tollund Man lay away from firm ground, buried under of peat, his body arranged in a fetal position. He wore a pointed skin cap of sheepskin and wool, fastened under his chin by a hide thong, and a smooth hide belt around his waist. Additionally, a noose made of plaited animal hide was drawn tight around his neck and trailed down his back.
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According to Masterman (chief pharmacist to the Paraguayan > forces, whose medical duties took him to Humaitá) they rested on "lighters" > – which also served as floating prisons – and on rows of piles. The latter > failed (he said) "from the necessity of fishing them when the river was > high": Masterman, 139. The [Brazilian] ironclads fired for three months at > these pontoons and canoes, sinking all of them, when, of course, the chain > went to the bottom, as the river there is about 700 yards wide, and the > chain could not be drawn tight without intermediate supports. The chain was > thus buried some two feet under the mud of the river, offering no obstacle > whatever to the navigation.
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A modified sheet bend with the end falling away from the horse's head is used to secure a rope halter that lacks buckles For tying, it is disputed if a halter should be made strong enough not to break under stress, or if it should give way when tension reaches a certain point in order to prevent injury to the animal. Usually the issue is of minimal concern if a tied animal is attended and the lead rope is tied with a slip knot that can be quickly released if the animal panics. However, in cases where a non-slip knot is tied, or if a soft rope is drawn tight and the knot cannot be released, or if the animal is left unsupervised, an animal panicking and attempting to escape can be seriously injured. Those who argue that the risk of injury is more of a concern than the risk of escape recommend halter designs that incorporate breakaway elements, such as a leather crownpiece, breakaway buckles, or easily detachable lead rope.
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