Then, there was a rubber flip-flop remnant, rigged with nautical string so that it flexes upward and, on release — splat!
In the afternoon, as elements of the 7th Airborne Battalion moved through the Thuan Loi rubber plantation to search for remnants of the second group of the ARVN 1st Battalion, the Viet Cong 271st Regiment started attacking the South Vietnamese paratroopers in a manner which had characterised earlier ambushes.
On Monday night, as a hot day of peaceful protests turned suddenly violent when a few dozen demonstrators flung chunks of concrete, bottles and ball-bearings across a high security fence ringing the Staples Center arena, the police wasted no time firing back with rubber bullets and beanbags to disperse the unruly remnants of a crowd of several thousand.
Far from being natural wonders, the artworks are made of plastic bottles, rubber tubing, ropes, cans, foam and myriad other remnants of debris.
Outside of his house I saw the remnants of street fires, and smelt burnt rubber.
In 2017, Trump will be in a position to rubber-stamp a Republican agenda that threatens to eviscerate the remnants of the New Deal consensus.
In general, Iranians inhale a cocktail of rubber particles, asbestos, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, and partially burnt remnants of hydrocarbons.
First, they don surgical masks and thick rubber gloves; then, after loading the stuff, they meticulously scrub all of its remnants from the surfaces of the sink and floor with a dry, greenish cleaning solution (generic Comet, perhaps?), leaving no trace of the granules anywhere.
The 3,234 ha closed agroforest system varies in altitude from 28 165 m asl and contains remnants of old growth degraded forest, intermixed with cultivated crops, especially the main cash crops of oil palm and rubber, and to a lesser extent subsistence fruit tree crops, such as jackfruit (Artocarpus integer), durian (Durio zibethinus), jengkol (Archidendron pauciflorum), and petai (Parkia speciosa).
The criterion for tooth selection was no pre-treatment with a chemical agent such as alcohol, formalin, hydrogen peroxide, etc. Soft tissue remnants and calculus were removed from the teeth, following which they were cleaned with fluoride-free pumice and a rubber cup.
