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  • When Rocky Wirtz took over the Chicago Blackhawks, it was the hockey equivalent of the Iron Curtain falling.

    GM Dale Tallon helped carry Blackhawks out of dark ages 2009

  • The bar is spacious, the NCAA is on the TV screens, beer pennants hang from the ceiling, and through the large windows I see rain falling.

    Return of the ‘Speakeasies’ | Impact Lab 2007

  • I was thinking of taking aikido but since I'm a lazy American, I didn't want to commit to a style that I knew would take me 12+ years to master vs. a style that might take me 5 :P Plus, i'm a wuss and didn't like the idea of falling.

    Choosing Martial Art: A Celebration floreta 2009

  • Only when it is separated does it have some difficulty in falling. … after we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling form the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, then we have feeling.

    Zen waterfall Celeste Winant 2007

  • Only when it is separated does it have some difficulty in falling. … after we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling form the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, then we have feeling.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Celeste Winant 2007

  • Of course, it is impossible to precisely predict when solar radiance will drop and global temperatures will begin falling.

    Think Progress » Drudge Falsely Smears Gore 2006

  • Surprisingly, we missed the ice today - 20 miles or so further north and it wouldn't have been rain falling.

    A Near Miss 2005

  • As we cross Sunset and head up towards Will Rogers Park, all I can hear are our footsteps and the rain falling.

    Listen… 2003

  • The sovereign remedy, then, is to commend oneself to God; for, unless He upholds us by His power, His virtue, and His goodness, we not only fall, but take pleasure in falling.

    The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

  • Uh, we're pretty sure slipping and jumping down are two different things, and we're pretty sure the first one is also called falling.

    CHARTattack:News Feed 2009

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