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Examples
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Yet I, as a vet cannot forget the hell we visited upon innocent villagers in Viet Nam, when B-52 arc-light strikes rained down upon their hamlets.
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Two blocks from the laundry, where an arc-light showed a gang of toughs on the corner, Saxon quickened her pace.
CHAPTER I 2010
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The Dems will be treated to months of pain and suffering, as they try to burrow down deep for safety, they will slowly lose their cool and will find themselves in an even worse political posture by GOP arc-light strikes.
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Because of these properties, thorium has found applications in light bulb elements, lantern mantles, arc-light lamps, welding electrodes and heat-resistant ceramics.
Thorium 2009
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The publication's cut-line is: 'Finding the present in the past, the past in the present' That mild promise becomes a savage, scintillating reality in the arc-light of Lapham's editorial vision.
Tony Hendra: Lapham's Quarterly: Cutting-Edge Journalism From The Distant Past 2008
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In one chapter, he discusses what he calls the "synthesis" -- or fabrication -- of news, including a bogus story by one reporter about the ill effects of sticking one's umbrella into an arc-light.
Five Best 2007
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The arc-light flames appeared to descend directly upon their heads, but as the infernos neared the surface of the planet, gradually slowing their descent, it became obvious the two newly arrived landers were settling on the lakeshore, within kilometers of the first two.
Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005
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However, in the fall of 1880, or a little earlier (when he was still very much entangled with the preliminary sex affairs that led eventually to Rita Sohlberg), he became aware of a new system of traction relating to street-cars which, together with the arrival of the arc-light, the telephone, and other inventions, seemed destined to change the character of city life entirely.
The Titan 2004
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Her mouth opened and shut several times; she mumbled her remaining tooth, and once quite suddenly she curtsied, like the blink of an arc-light.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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Under the full light of a roadside arc-light lay a form, face downward in
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