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I saw, of the better sort, who. had banded together, and, with their women and children in their midst, the sick and aged in litters and being carried, and with a number of horses pulling a truck-load of provisions, they were fighting their way out of the city.
Page 1 2010
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Three key leaders escaped to South Sudan (think car chases and safe houses), where in Wau, Southern Sudan, they arranged for the purchase of a truck-load of relief which they (with the help of Manute's legacy organization based in the U.S., Sudan Sunrise) delivered to Abyei refugees and needy locals in Turalei on June 30.
John Zogby: Manute Bol, South Sudan's Independence, and Emerging Arab Spring John Zogby 2011
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Three key leaders escaped to South Sudan (think car chases and safe houses), where in Wau, Southern Sudan, they arranged for the purchase of a truck-load of relief which they (with the help of Manute's legacy organization based in the U.S., Sudan Sunrise) delivered to Abyei refugees and needy locals in Turalei on June 30.
John Zogby: Manute Bol, South Sudan's Independence, and Emerging Arab Spring John Zogby 2011
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Three key leaders escaped to South Sudan (think car chases and safe houses), where in Wau, Southern Sudan, they arranged for the purchase of a truck-load of relief which they (with the help of Manute's legacy organization based in the U.S., Sudan Sunrise) delivered to Abyei refugees and needy locals in Turalei on June 30.
John Zogby: Manute Bol, South Sudan's Independence, and Emerging Arab Spring John Zogby 2011
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Algeria, South Africa and Ghana are not blessed with forwards who go into this competition with a truck-load of goals behind them.
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In another raid, the Karnataka police seized a truck-load of liquor at a check-post during transit from the adjacent Davangere district.
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Since the plot didn't work the first time and no one has tried it since, the only beneficiaries of this are the recyclers, who receive a truck-load of discarded water and shampoo bottles from airports every day, and the concessionaires on the other side of security, who charge exorbitant prices to quench the thirst of parched passengers suddenly deprived of their drinks.
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As writer/director of this new one, he begins with a charming use of the actors addressing the audience, steals fairly obviously from Godard and Truffaut, concocts a story full of angst, bathos and would-be comedy/romance, climaxes with a truck-load of exposition regarding a character completely unseen and ends with the use of a children's book that manages to be both pretentious and sentimental.
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No North Korean missile is heading your way with a huge canister of megadeath; Obama forgives your nasty rejection of government stimulus money and will send the check anyway, Bristol has finally agreed to use condoms (thank God!), and Hubby just pulled in the driveway with another truck-load of machine-gunned moose.
Sarah Smile 2009
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In Karnataka on April 10, 2009 police seized Rs. 80 million in cash and a truck-load of liquor in two separate raids near Bellary town.
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