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  • And, ideally, some sort of clam-shell design which opens and gives you two screens, like a book lying open.

    Comic Books vs. Natural Selection 2009

  • On the chest of another hung a huge disc of polished fossil clam-shell.

    Chapter 23 2010

  • Ms. Woulf drives him to the subway, shops for food "a lot of kosher," she says and has dressed up the picnic table with a clam-shell collection and a pot of pink pansies.

    A Campground Grows in Brooklyn, Bringing a New York Edge to Roughing It Barry Newman 2011

  • They wore nose-rings of clam-shell and turtle-shell, and from the ends of their noses which were also pierced, projected horns of beads strung on stiff wire.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • The pedicab driver charges "whatever you feel like paying," local fashion dictates towels on the head and the community garden features a clam-shell patch, innumerable American flags and a faded Bud Light canopy shading a filing cabinet.

    Hamptons Out of Reach? Rockaway Beach 2010

  •  But for me, the vast pool, with its white walkways splayed to the sun like an open clam-shell, was too much of a stage set.

    Euro-car at the Pool 2010

  • He has been able to get his producers to not use the plastic clam-shell for the lettuce.

    in which i learn that my recycling efforts are not as good as i thought 2009

  • Running seventeen episodes, it was a show I first found on PBS on Saturday nights while waiting for Saturday Night Live, and then once I entered High School was steered to it by friends as the local library had all the episodes on tape in the old, puffy clam-shell boxes.

    THE PRISONER The Complete Series Blu-ray Review – Collider.com 2009

  • Its chassis has a matt-white outer clam-shell design with a black keyboard.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • It also is expected to introduce a touch-screen BlackBerry, as well as a clam-shell version of the device, later this year.

    RIM's Net Jumps on BlackBerry Demand 2008

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