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  • Instead the delegation toured a series of nondescript warehouses and innocuous-looking school buildings around the city.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • The plotters were planning to bring the liquid explosives onto the flights they had targeted disguised as soft drinks, together with other innocuous-looking items such as disposable cameras—the flashes of which could act as triggers—and assemble their bombs on the planes.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • For that very reason, Mr. Skinner added, his employees wear civilian khakis and golf shirts rather than uniforms; travel in undermarked vans; and bring their bug-sniffing dogs into stores and hotels in the dead of night and in those innocuous-looking soft-sided carrying cases that Park Avenue matrons use to take their toy poodles named Fifi to Paris for the weekend.

    Sniffing Out Tiny Terrorists Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • But right now he's handing out innocuous-looking brochures to the relic hunters walking by, as the sweet smell of glazed nuts wafts from a concession stand.

    National Archives hunts for missing treasures with recovery team 2011

  • The plotters were planning to bring the liquid explosives onto the flights they had targeted disguised as soft drinks, together with other innocuous-looking items such as disposable cameras—the flashes of which could act as triggers—and assemble their bombs on the planes.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The plotters were planning to bring the liquid explosives onto the flights they had targeted disguised as soft drinks, together with other innocuous-looking items such as disposable cameras—the flashes of which could act as triggers—and assemble their bombs on the planes.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • There was a sense of disorganisation at times, as in the 20th minute when Gabriel Heinze pumped an innocuous-looking high ball towards the penalty area which Brown and Smalling both went to clear and then left to one another.

    Chris Smalling helps make a shaky case for Manchester United's defence 2011

  • The plotters were planning to bring the liquid explosives onto the flights they had targeted disguised as soft drinks, together with other innocuous-looking items such as disposable cameras—the flashes of which could act as triggers—and assemble their bombs on the planes.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Instead the delegation toured a series of nondescript warehouses and innocuous-looking school buildings around the city.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • But right now he's handing out innocuous-looking brochures to the relic hunters walking by, as the sweet smell of glazed nuts wafts from a concession stand.

    National Archives hunts for missing treasures with recovery team 2011

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