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lighters

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Plural of lighter

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Stones, lighters, coins, flares, chunks of crumbling terrace and other objects – the Albanian FA's submission claims a wheelbarrow was spotted on the terraces – found their way on to the pitch having been hurled in the direction of Albanian players.

As dusk fell, he taught me useful knots, how to erect a tarpaulin and how to make fire in nine different ways (without matches or lighters).

Among the hottest items, says the store's owner, Serafin Blanco, are $3.99 bags of flints for mending old lighters; they easily escape detection by Cuban customs officials.

Sheikh Rashed intends that it shall remain so.With a thriving and well-established trading community of some 60,000 people, a frantically active waterway running through its heart, with lighters and dhows being loaded and unloaded 24 hours a day at its centre, Dubai is in strange and welcome contrast to anywhere else on the Gulf.

They would reach the last page and dash the evil weed underfoot, throw their lighters and packets in a heap on the floor, shout and embrace, cry, exchange addresses.

First he sold belts and lighters in Tiananmen Square.

And tests run by the TSA found that officers were so busy hunting for lighters and other fairly trivial banned items that they overlooked dummy bomb parts placed nearby.In general, says Mr Hawley, predictable and rigid checks help terrorists: they design plots around them.

In the city of Wenzhou, 3,000 small firms have clubbed together to concentrate on making cigarette lighters, some specialising in components, some in final assembly.

Sachets of methanol fuel, purchased at newspaper kiosks, rather like refills for cigarette lighters, could be inserted with little fuss into electronic devices.There are two ways to get the hydrogen out of methanol in a way that a fuel cell can use.

Gradually, however, he discovered that the lungyis (sarongs) of the prisoners' uniforms made the best canvases, while almost anything, from the lids of toothpaste tubes to the wheels of cigarette lighters could be used as brushes.

Adolfo López Mateos promoted his 1958 candidacy with PRI-themed cigarette lighters.

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