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The corrosion could cause the rear cross-member frame to fail and could lead to the spare tire falling out.
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The corrosion could cause the rear cross-member frame to fail and could lead to the spare tire falling out.
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As a cross-member of the White Castle-eating, Deodorant-using, Feminist micro-demo it's all too clear that none of the remaining candidates speak for me.
Against McCain, Obama Loses "Beer Track" ��� And Hillary Loses "Wine Track" 2009
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He grasps a cross-member and stands beside me, watching his apprentice.
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
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My heels were dragging on sand now and I kicked upwards with one foot and hooked it sideways and felt nothing and kicked again and got it lodged across a brake rod but it slipped off and I tried the other foot, feeling for a cross-member and not finding one, trying again and hitting the open propeller-shaft and letting it drop back to the roadway.
The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978
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Ten feet only separated me from the trapdoor inset in the floor of the cabin when a gap appeared in the clouds and a low moon shone through, a half-moon only, but the contrasting brightness bathed the yellow-painted crane and its massive boom in an oddly garish flood of light that highlit every girder and cross-member of the structures.
Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969
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He tried another and another and suddenly one rattled against the lower cross-member.
More Than Human Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 1953
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He sat in the water, close by the fence, and with the piece of iron he began to rub against the picket just under the cross-member.
More Than Human Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 1953
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It was a gallows without a trap-a contraption with two uprights and a cross-member.
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From the middle of the cross-member there hung a rope with a noose on the end of it.
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