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  • "They'll be sitting there thinking, 'Oh, if I bounce the ball off that peg it'll hit this other peg and jump over here , where it'll take out two other colored pegs," Canessa said.

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  • Delgado let him, willingly; Canessa tasted it and then decided that after all he would have his ration.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Canessa had told them that, while they might not be of particular nutritional value, they contained glucose which would give them energy; he had been the first to take a head, cut the skin across the forehead, pull back the scalp, and crack open the skull with the ax.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Canessa went up to Eduardo, who was serving it out, and asked for his ration.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • His health, along with that of Roy Harley and Coche Inciarte, caused the greatest concern to the two "doctors," Canessa and Zerbino.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • There they found that Harley and Canessa had made all the necessary connections between battery and radio and radio and shark's-fin antenna but still could not pick up any signal on the earphones.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Canessa could think of no further excuse for delay, and at eight o'clock the next morning a small column assembled for the descent to the tail.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Later in the morning, however, Canessa came out and told him that Numa was in a coma.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Yet instead of applying himself to what was still to be done, Canessa lay around "conserving his energy" or insisted on treating the boils that Roy Harley had developed on his legs.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • They had had no high hopes for the radio and were not thrown into despair when Harley, Canessa, Parrado, and Vizintin returned, but they were impatient that the last three should leave again almost immediately.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

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