Word: pulling
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...rest. At an office of the local electric power plant, troops were still trying to save a man in his early 30s who, remarkably, remained alive but was imprisoned by wreckage of a collapsed building. Orange-suited rescuers stood on top of the debris pile, looking for ways to pull him out as if trying to solve a gigantic concrete puzzle. "He's trapped but not crushed," said a soldier at the scene. "We have to go very slowly." Workers kept the man alive by feeding him liquids while they waited for the delivery of equipment needed to free...
...Crimson used the second 1000 meters of the heat to pull almost even with Yale before beginning the sprint in the last 500 meters, trying to eek out a second-place finish and a ticket to the grand finals...
...fact that they were able to pull off raising that much money was great, especially since there were so many students there,” said Lin Gao ’10, co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Student Association (CSA) and a native of the Sichuan province...
...decidedly unbasic way. There aren't many musicians who teach the concept of the number seven with a song about a gang of sevens invading a home and demanding cake. Think that's too edgy for your kids? Show it to them once--and then see if you can pull them away...
...hour later, almost exactly three days after the quake struck, the soldiers pull out two bodies from the massage parlor. A crowd gathers on the street to watch, and more soldiers come to prevent the emotional scene from overflowing. Deng learns that his father has identified his mother's body. He sits on a railing with his grandmother, a cotton mask over his mouth and a camouflage hat on his head. "It's a tragedy," he says, his voice finally cracking. "You must cherish life. You must cherish every moment you are alive." With reporting by Lin Yang