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Cords
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Plural of cord
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Most of them are shot outside, with the author explaining how to catch fish with your bare hands, make cords and ribbons from plastic bottles and knives and axes from everyday objects.
Not formal, but generally cords or chinos, and a shirt.
Sam wanted cream Wrangler cords and Adidas trainers.
And I screamed and screamed and screamed, so much so that it did something to my vocal cords, which I still have today".
Instead of building a turbine add-on to the phone, his team developed software that listens for acoustic features, such as resonance, that result from air being expelled through the trachea and past the vocal cords.
Casting directors such as John McMurray of the English National Opera are already struggling to find the right voices for the big roles in such late Italian warhorses as Verdi's "Aida" and "Turandot", or Puccini's "Tosca" and "La Boheme .But while opera may be losing future Placido Domingos or Birgit Nilssons to ruined vocal cords, the singers themselves have the most to lose.
Since its loss, the city has been running off emergency extension cords.
They can be recovered with nets, parachutes, vertically strung cords that snag a wingtip hook or a simple drop on the ground after a stall a metre or two in the air.
High support prices and a limit on export subsidies have acted as two vicious cords tying farmers into a highly controlled market in which output is artificially constrained.
So a promising new "stress-transfer" theory, which sets out to explain how an earthquake in one place affects the probability of subsequent earthquakes nearby, is causing a bit of a rumble.One of the theory's leading proponents, Ross Stein of the US Geological Survey, likes to explain its underlying principles with a string of house bricks interconnected by elastic "bungee" cords.
In Scotland and Wales, in the independent republic of London and in Northern Ireland, devolution judders ahead (though not without the occasional pulling of alarm cords and squealing of brakes).
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