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  • Another twenty-eight students were wounded by bullets or injured leaping from upper-story windows.

    'Vinegar Peace' by Michael Bishop 2009

  • The tower's new entrance, rebuilt after a bombing last year, was a mangle of twisted metal, but upper-story windows remained intact.

    Bomb kills 2 at upscale Kabul hotel complex Joshua Partlow 2011

  • Viewed from the upper-story former international-departures floor, the surrounding metropolis has been transformed by the inundation into a wasteland.

    Thai Airport Offers a Haven James Hookway 2011

  • Another twenty-eight students were wounded by bullets or injured leaping from upper-story windows.

    April 2009 2009

  • The tower's new entrance, rebuilt after a bombing last year, was a mangle of twisted metal, but upper-story windows remained intact.

    Bomb kills 2 at upscale Kabul hotel complex Joshua Partlow 2011

  • Another twenty-eight students were wounded by bullets or injured leaping from upper-story windows.

    2009 April | StarShipSofa 2009

  • It looked like an emergency room, but the walls were rocking, streetlights and upper-story apartment windows rushed past the windows.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • The City Troop, detailed to patrol the streets that evening, fared even worse, as restive citizens lobbed bricks and “large stones” from upper-story windows.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • The City Troop, detailed to patrol the streets that evening, fared even worse, as restive citizens lobbed bricks and “large stones” from upper-story windows.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Fire broke out late Saturday afternoon on an upper-story balcony of an apartment house adjacent to the Southwest/Southeast Freeway, authorities said.

    Fire breaks out in SW apartment building 2010

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