"Just because you didn't find me, you shouldn't assume that I'm in hiding," Mr. Rushdie gleefully told reporters who crushed around him.
Many people had travelled from around the country to attend the funeral, and crowds spilled out of the park on to the adjacent thoroughfare where throngs crushed around the flower-strewn ambulance that eventually brought Qadri's body to the event.
His chair was crushed around him.
"He will be hurled about, shaken, spun, crushed, and snapped around like crazy when the parachutes open, and then he'll crash into the Earth.
Spectators often fled Clinton's events before they ended, while at Obama's the crowds crushed in around him after the last standing ovation.
In each there was a table for writing, a circle of crushed cockroaches around the desk chair, curtains made colorless by cigarette smoke, a few books, and nothing much in the kitchen but coffee, bourbon, and beer.
Two days later, aboard Clinton's chartered campaign plane (she took off in a blizzard from Cleveland and was on to Columbus), she spoke in the aisle, while reporters, some pinned against tray tables by overeager cameramen who had leaped over several seats to get a good angle, crushed in around her with their recorders.
"Considering how they were tossed around and crushed, we think that is a very good indication of the safety performance of that vehicle," said Bob Yakushi, the director of product safety for Nissan North America.
The natural piano's puniness next to busy electronic rhythmic figures may not have been the intention of Milica Paranosic's "Buggatack," but top-heaviness from the plugged-in side simply crushed the dullness around it.
While the insurgency remains strong in other parts of Baluchistan, the military has largely crushed the resistance around Turbat since March 2007, yet armed men are still in the hills and continue to be rounded up, residents here said.
The land's purchase by the government would have given hikers a chance to examine the place where glaciers left heaps of crushed rock strewn around like so much debris at a construction site.
