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That provision provided the basis for the 1903 Agreement on Coaling and Naval Stations, which gave the United States the right to use Guantánamo Bay "exclusively as coaling or naval stations, and for no other purpose."
Marjorie Cohn: Close the Guantánamo Gulag Marjorie Cohn 2012
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In Coaling, Ala., firefighter Reginald Epps and his wife tried to gather their three boys—ages eight, six and four—to protect them as the storm approached their home.
Tornadoes Leave a Trail of Devastation Timothy W. Martin 2011
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That provision provided the basis for the 1903 Agreement on Coaling and Naval Stations, which gave the United States the right to use Guantánamo Bay "exclusively as coaling or naval stations, and for no other purpose."
Marjorie Cohn: Close the Guantánamo Gulag Marjorie Cohn 2012
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Then the West Section Coaling Company has paid its annual contribution.
Chennai 2010
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If she comes around and asks where Bo Peep is" or the Coaling Man" and I have to tell her she broke them, she'll be sad all day.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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Coaling continued through the night by candlelight; the searchlights normally used to illuminate the decks remained switched off lest beams or glow be seen far out to sea.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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-- Coaling is a long process at Labuan, first, because the ship lies so far from the shore, and next, because of the insufficiency of convenient boats, and the necessary coolie labour to put the coal on board, thus it took us two whole days to get in as many hundred tons.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith
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Coaling proceeded without cessation till the morning of the 17th, when the _Wolf_ moved off a short distance.
Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' Frederic George Trayes
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Coaling the _Wolf_ from the _Igotz Mendi_ at once began, and a wireless installation was immediately rigged up by the
Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' Frederic George Trayes
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Coaling at Port Said is effected with great rapidity, for ships have to be speedily pushed on through the Canal to prevent a block, thus, by the following afternoon, we commenced our first stage of the
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith
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