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  • Plate should never look like an open-backed negligee with thigh-high stockings.

    msagara: Cast in Silence Chapter, and a question msagara 2009

  • As our propeller plane taxied to a halt on the dirt runway in Laikipia, in central Kenya, I noticed three native guys hanging around an open-backed Land Rover.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • So I lay there on my side, in one of those open-backed gowns they give you, and he said, “Okay, Jimmy . . . knees to your chest . . . prepare yourself . . .”

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • As our propeller plane taxied to a halt on the dirt runway in Laikipia, in central Kenya, I noticed three native guys hanging around an open-backed Land Rover.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • So I lay there on my side, in one of those open-backed gowns they give you, and he said, “Okay, Jimmy . . . knees to your chest . . . prepare yourself . . .”

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • So I lay there on my side, in one of those open-backed gowns they give you, and he said, “Okay, Jimmy . . . knees to your chest . . . prepare yourself . . .”

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • Soldiers constantly crisscross Ciudad Juárez in open-backed SUVs.

    Postcards from a Violent City 2010

  • We were taken to the rally in a couple of large vans but I was late and ended up standing in the last vehicle—a beaten-up open-backed truck that usually carried photographers during parades.20 The view was excellent from this “official” car as we approached the first police cordons.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • Soldiers constantly crisscross Ciudad Juárez in open-backed SUVs.

    Postcards from a Violent City 2010

  • Directly in front of me, by the main entrance to the compound, were parked a pair of open-backed pickup trucks, their bodywork peppered with holes, the windows smashed in by the blast.

    An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008

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