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  • The old tower blocks opposite the green where Vince (now dead) and Helen (last seen on Western road in Brighton, repping for Turnaround) lived the summer I was fifteen, were taken down layer by layer, brick by brick, too perilous a prospect for the Hackney-style dramatic blow-down.

    Edmonton « Squares of Wheat 2006

  • The old tower blocks opposite the green where Vince (now dead) and Helen (last seen on Western road in Brighton, repping for Turnaround) lived the summer I was fifteen, were taken down layer by layer, brick by brick, too perilous a prospect for the Hackney-style dramatic blow-down.

    October « 2006 « Squares of Wheat 2006

  • The thruster jets were just smaller versions of the OMS engines, using a simple blow-down helium pressure feed system with propellants that burned on contact.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • The thruster jets were just smaller versions of the OMS engines, using a simple blow-down helium pressure feed system with propellants that burned on contact.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • The thruster jets were just smaller versions of the OMS engines, using a simple blow-down helium pressure feed system with propellants that burned on contact.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • The thruster jets were just smaller versions of the OMS engines, using a simple blow-down helium pressure feed system with propellants that burned on contact.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • PART Six Welle Done By the time Kimber and I descended from the edge of the blow-down and reached the town of Clark I figured that his panic attack had exceeded an hour in duration.

    Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000

  • Once you're in there, "he said, pointing at the blow-down," especially at night, it's like trying to navigate in a box of toothpicks.

    Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000

  • Superficial rooting is not common in drier soils. thus blow-down is less of a problem under such conditions.

    Chapter 8 1996

  • The tree is evidently nor deeply rooted and is subject to blow-down.

    Chapter 8 1996

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