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- noun Alternative form of
life vest .
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Examples
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How about if McSame walks down Baghdad streets without any bullet proof lifevest, no special forces on the roof tops, no General walking beside him, no armoured trucks following behind him and he can declare victory if he makes it 2 blocks.
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Maybe he could help ease the African-Americans out of the lifevest.
"Shame on you," says Bill Clinton, if you're worried the Hillary campaign is exploiting race. Ann Althouse 2008
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Or total immersion in the river (calm sections), maybe even a nice bobbing-in-your-lifevest-float?
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Nicholas was very patient during the whole lifevest ritual, but after 10 minutes of checking out our room, he was already asking when we were going home.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Nicholas was very patient during the whole lifevest ritual, but after 10 minutes of checking out our room, he was already asking when we were going home.
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The downed pilot drifted in his lifevest and watched the proceedings with strong interest.
On Yankee Station Nichols, Tillman 1988
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If they WERE wearing lifevest and the water temperture was so warm what happened to them.
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Rescuers found the deceased male passenger wearing a lifevest on the second deck in the unsubmerged part of the Costa Concordia.
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Ish-Her lifevest probably came off when the prop hit her
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When we were passing the big pond in the park in front of the Louvre we were met by four young screaming Frenchmen wearing bright orange, one of them in a lifevest, and sprinting past us with a raft.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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