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  • In October 2005, Speed joined more than a hundred designers, architects, and planners for a week at the half-wrecked Isle of Capri casino hotel in Biloxi, where they drew up traditional-neighborhood proposals for the eleven communities wiped out by the hurricane.

    Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

  • I can only tell you that Joe let out a terrible anguished cry and levelled his pistol at J.B. The old man was turned away, revolver in one hand and carbine in t'other, shooting through the half-wrecked door, when Joe squeezed the trigger - and his piece misfired.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Best Quote: [to Zod and Company, at the half-wrecked White House] â⠂ ¬Å Hi, everybody!

    13 Great Science Fiction Villains - SciFiChick.com 2007

  • For years now, people in Washington who have asked why Helms, in more straightforward cases, was allowed to keep the American government from having diplomatic representation in important capitals around the world for months and months on end, finally only to permit someone he had publicly humiliated and half-wrecked to turn up limping in the designated country, got the same answer: "" Oh, he's only going to hold it up a few months.

    Brutus Denies All 2008

  • Evans was doing it with an outgunned and half-wrecked destroyer.

    Dead In the Water 2007

  • "They've got enough trouble right now, with Hanan in the hospital and a half-wrecked ship."

    Angelmass Zahn, Timothy 2001

  • He was safe in this place, in part because it was half-wrecked.

    Betrayal Lois Tilton 2000

  • Then the buildings had been left half-wrecked and despoiled by the Cardassians as they retreated.

    Objective: Bajor John Peel 2000

  • Kira was just beginning to think she might know the answer to that one, when suddenly, in the empty, half-wrecked corridor, the stationwide comm startled them all: Full station alert!

    Betrayal Lois Tilton 2000

  • Harper was too heavy: he crawled, dazed, to the porch, and Anna turned the half-wrecked vehicle around until she could get him in the passenger side and wedge the door closed.

    The Night Crew Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23- 1997

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