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  • Then Palestinians had to take your luggage and walk through what was called no-man’s-land, a stretch of land running about a quarter of a mile.

    Unveiled Deborah Kanafani 2008

  • He told me he was on a return flight from Asia and they were in an area between Hawaii and L.A. called no-man’s-land because there isn’t a safe diversionary airport within easy landing distance.

    THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010

  • He told me he was on a return flight from Asia and they were in an area between Hawaii and L.A. called no-man’s-land because there isn’t a safe diversionary airport within easy landing distance.

    THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010

  • Nasdaq is in an "M&A no-man's land," Mr. Allen wrote in a Feb. 28, report.

    Investment Services 2011

  • Manto's Toba Tek Singh stuck in no-man's land; Brontë's Heathcliff wrenching open the window and soliciting Cathy's ghost to enter; King Lear running mad in the storm; a lesbian relationship seen as a quilt changing shapes by a young girl in Ismat Chughtai's "Lihaf;" moments of complex jealousy in Proust; the moment in Henry James's "Turn of the Screw" where the boy is seen standing out in the garden at night and many others.

    Author tells of India's ordinary thugs Margherita Stancati 2011

  • It occupies that no-man's land that sinks all reality TV shows.

    Why we can't get enough of childbirth on TV 2012

  • But about 3,000 Bangladeshis and 1,000 northern Sudanese were trapped in a no-man's land between Libya and Egypt, where emergency workers were trying to bring them food, water and medicine.

    Thousands of foreigners evacuted from Libyan port 2011

  • When I say it out loud or it comes up in a conversation, it gives me a strong sense of pride, for I refuse to be marked as the "no-man" in my way of thinking or buy into the archaic and perverted notion of supremacy based on an imperialist notion of racial purity.

    Eduardo Xol: The Color Bubbles Eduardo Xol 2011

  • De Gea looked caught in no-man's land for Joleon Lescott's header, which put City up 1-0.

    Manchester United's Giant Goalie Gamble Gabriele Marcotti 2011

  • This accounts for some of the modeling no-man's land of the size 8-10, and why it's difficult to simply stick a plus girl into the picture, or anyone above a size 4, really.

    Leona Palmer: Sample Size Me: Money, Culture and Size in Fashion Leona Palmer 2011

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