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  • Photo of a little girl being attacked by a mechani...

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • In order to achieve this, we must devise mechani sms that will enable the membership to combat and defeat the negative tendencies that Lenin, José Marti and countless other revolutionaries have identified and warned us against.

    Organisational Report 2007

  • The members of the bear's mechani-cal retinue had died, one by one, over the long years until just this little group of five were left ... and they did not sound very healthy, with their squeaks and squalls and rusty chitterings.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

  • "This mechani us W I I I I ~ m S h ~ t n ~ r cat chap's just now delivered this most interesting snapshot to me."

    Tek Lab Shatner, William 1991

  • By now the pool table was surrounded by mechani-cal spectators, all viewing the action through optics op-erating on everything from infrared up through the ultraviolet.

    The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979

  • A simple-minded mechani-cal programmed for few functions, it had by then for-gotten all about the non-Cygnian robot now cavorting in the recreation room with other members of the ship's mechanized crew.

    The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979

  • Such extreme memory-emotions were denied mechani-cals.

    The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979

  • Beck, who, Kurt felt, had been making an honest attempt to communicate, soon withdrew into himself, ate mechani - cally, and became his normal cold, faraway self.

    The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972

  • On a visit Rasselas found a mechani - cally-minded man busily engaged in making artificial wings on the model of a bat's.

    COSMIC VOYAGES MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

  • The greek word banausia (βαναυσία) means mechani - cal skill, more generally manual work, and has a pejo - rative connotation.

    WORK FELICE BATTAGLIA 1968

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