"He took a lot of dirt, but you're going to have to take dirt, so we'll regroup and look him over," his trainer, Kiaran McLaughlin, said.
If buildings are designed with surfaces like this, then rainwater just rolls off, taking dirt with it.
A property of such tiny bumps is that they prevent drops of water from spreading out: the drops simply roll off the surface instead, taking dirt with them.
"I appreciated that Tony was loyal to family, very ambitious and wasn't taking" dirt "from anyone," the young Brooklyn rapper Red Café said, using an earthier term.
"We are going to try and tell you to show your hands," Trost said, alluding to fans who might try to take dirt or grass from the field.
And how the village was paid to take dirt dug up from the Olympics site, but when a villager refused to allow his fish pond to be filled in he was attacked by men with knives?
A company called Pilkington's (who invented float glass) can now make glass that will never allow water to form droplets on its surface, so water runs off and takes dirt with it.
"He would take dirt directly on his face, rub most of it off with a wet paper towel and then fill in the stubble with a ball point pen," he said.
Defying a military-enforced curfew, Mr. Hsiky and a caravan of about 200 supporters of the deposed Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, crossed precipitous hillsides covered with coffee plantations and dense cloud forest, skirting military roadblocks by taking dirt back roads.
