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Leticia, a shy woman with a mile-wide smile, is from Morelos, the second smallest state in Mexico.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Steady Shoe-Shine Man Nancy Ruhling 2011
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A half-century ago, the main onlookers to the black, mile-wide cloud that came toward Joplin would have been the people in its path.
Joplin's Tornado 2011
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I had a mile-wide smile on my face as I carefully balanced a box of glass cake plates on my hip.
How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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Over the last 12 years as an extreme storm chaser, I've risked my life documenting the most powerful and deadly natural disasters on the planet, including mile-wide F5 tornadoes, softball-sized hail, and over a dozen hurricanes in the U.S. and Caribbean, including the devastating Hurricane Katrina from Slidell, Louisiana.
Reed Timmer: 'Into The Storm': "Storm Chasers" Reed Timmer's Extreme Weather Adventures(PHOTOS) (VIDEO) Reed Timmer 2010
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For the record, I am a far-right fiscal conservative with a mile-wide libertarian streak.
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I had a mile-wide smile on my face as I carefully balanced a box of glass cake plates on my hip.
How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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In particular, they said the insurgents have free movement in a 10 kilometer 6 mile-wide rugged swath between the River Kunar and the frontier.
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The most enduring image from the movie is his mile-wide smile.
“Anvil!” pursues its dream at all costs » Scene-Stealers 2009
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But under the leadership of Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, relations between the longtime rivals have improved substantially, leading to increased tourist arrivals on the island and an explosion of trade and investment on both sides of the 100-mile-wide Taiwan Strait.
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I was so moved by his images on the wall: black women in gingham dresses with mile-wide smiles as they held up their voter registration cards; Martin Luther King's widow Coretta Scott King at the funeral of the civil rights leader; images of Negro League players; striking sanitation workers with their "I Am a Man" signs from just weeks before King's assassination.
Nancy Snow: Whither Ernest Withers? Nancy Snow 2010
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