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The next morning, he opened the drawer a crack to look at the snake's tail and was amazed to see that it had turned into human toes.

West Berliner looking into East Berlin through a crack in the Berlin Wall at the time of it's construction.

To you, leaving that window open just a crack during the day is a way to let in a little fresh air.

The wind whistled through a crack in the door.

The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand.

This is so what I've needed, and I'm ready to give the pizza dough a crack.

The moon was clouded over, and the wind roared in the avenue. A spark sprang out of the sky, and there was a crack, a crash.

Joseph went to the door and opened it a crack and then a little wider.

But if pressure from gases in the nuclear core builds up, 'a crack could appear in the containment vessel and release radiation, ' he said.

The door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand.

What you are seeing is just a crack in the door right now.

He said he didn't know how to swim but would take a crack at it.

Now that you're done with her, you mind if I take a crack at her?

A little mouse living on a farm was looking through a crack in the wall one day and saw the farmer and his wife opening a package.

It was not wise to act upon an impulsive instruction without making sure that the reflective Nixon had had a crack at it.

Take a crack at making annual projections, or at least plugging in the potential numbers for the first half of the year.

It could be a long while before we see a shape-shifting robot squeeze through a crack in the door.

Caracas, Venezuela: A man puts his hand on a crack in the wall as he inspects his partially collapsed house following a landslide.

She opened the door just a crack to listen to the talking.

I have no recollection of digging my way out of the plane through a crack in the fuselage, but apparently that's how I got out.

Then somebody said there was a crack in the plane, so we managed to get out from there.

Two mullocks with aliens. Kill the aliens and continue. you'll come to a room with a shallow pool and a locked door with a crack.

I'm not very good at snooker but I'm willing to have a crack at it if you want a game.

Through a crack in the wall , the sky was a fish - belly grey .

A simple beam test, a material property test, and a crack detection test were conducted to verity the performance of the measurement system.

A tube shall be considered as failing this requirement if it develops a crack visible to the naked eye.

When it reaches a crack, the sealant is sucked out of the train and into the crack in the same way that water is lost.

A crack in this Haitian road bears witness to the force of the earthquake that devastat ed the island nation a week ago.

I found a crack in the glass of this picture frame.

She found a crack in one of the tea-cups.

The effect of the point defects on the behavior of a crack inside of a pressure tube.

A crack, even if I am trying to retrieve, also of no help.

Martin embarked on a career in real estate, which included renovating a crack house in Torrington into a hotel.

The US will have to look for a new site, having abandoned its Yucca Mountain repository where a crack has appeared.

The sun's magnetic field near Earth has tipped south, opening a crack in Earth's magnetic defenses against the solar wind.

They find them as a January north wind finds a crack in a door, as the water finds a leak in a ship, instantly and without apparent effort.

Past inspections of the methanol converter have revealed a crack in a support ring, but this has not affected operation of the plant.

Every time we had a crack at them, we were to take it, saving our own lives, with the extremest care.

Say another word, and I'll do your business myself with a crack on the head.

After that, the EU's Council of Ministers as well as the European Parliament will take a crack at modifying them.

I'm just a. . . just a guy who saw a crack in a chair, that no one else could see.

The state did not leak since death is not a crack.

A cricket chirped in a crack, as though celebrating a victory over all the world.

A crack in the sidewalk represented the opening of a grave, and stepping on a crack meant inviting death to your family.

Be wary of sin, because when you open a door even just a crack, wild creatures come rushing in.

There be no a crack serving the request being able to adapt to the various network , equipment and consumer environment.

You can use it repair a leaky toilet, or to fix a crack on a toilet seat.

Such a crack may expand over a long period of repeated lock and unlock operations, and eventually the lock bar could break.

Or perhaps entering a niche bank is simply a way for a banker who is a crack business head to be able to run an entire bank.

And the next day at school, some kid made a crack about my haircut.

He made a crack about my driving ability.

If water gets into a crack in rock and freezes, the pressure of the ice can break the rock open.

She was suspended again. Some kid made a crack about her clothes.

A mountain slope abutting the town had shown a crack, leading to fears it could smother part of the city in a landslide.

Ford said he had always wanted to take a crack at writing a novel.

This is a story about survival, and it seems "existence" the theme, in such a crack in the age of like but so sharp.

A crack is found after SR heat treatment in the vertical welding fusion line for water distribution ring pipe of a electric machinery.

A nearly vertical shaft or cavity worn in a glacier by surface or rock debris falling through a crack in the ice.

It has seen a better day, there are quite a few scrapes on its body, the tires are bald and there is a crack in the windshield.

After repeated cycling in this manner, fatigue will cause formation of a crack pattern thats recognized as heat checking.

So the next time my husband makes a crack like that I'll just have to drop kick his ass.

Hearing a crack of a gun, the police rushed in and saw the man lying on the floor, dead.

And hundreds of residents in this small village in Serbia turned out to have a crack at the annual Easter contest.

Like a bottle of old wine, just open a crack, it could no longer cover the fragrance overflowing.

Officials say oil is leaking from a crack in the hole of a damaged container ship that's grounded off the English coast .

But by the mid '80s, he had become a crack addict and a local nuisance.

A functional analysis method to determine the position of a crack is proposed.

'Bob, ' the CEO booms, 'After all your hard work you've earned a crack at an amazing market, it's tailor-made for a go-getter like you.

l The room was dark except for the light coming in through a crack in the door.

The queen had disappeared into a crack of the closed portal.

In his book A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester writes of the small earthquake-prone town of Parkfield, California.

He got a crack in the despair of life revelation, in the twinkling of an eye on the island for decades.

Many Syrians blame the president's brother, Maher Assad, who heads a crack army division, for the regime's excesses.

They said their ancestor was a famous hunter and a crack hunter.

Then I see the bolt of lightning and a crack, and, uh, I just said to myself: oh my God, oh my God, what am I going to do?

Like her American counterpart, she has a crack team of experts behind her -- in this case to help Ms. Luo live the Miss Universe dream.

We were delighted when we came across a shapely specimen tucked away in a crack on the underside of a rock .

I must jump up and see for myself what that mark on the wall really is - a nail, a rose-leaf, a crack in the wood?

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

If hydrogen were used as a crack detector (it is not because of the fire hazard), it would escape four times faster.

Highly radioactive water leaked into the sea from a crack at Japan's stricken nuclear power plant.

However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible.

Gave him a crack AT the job; took a crack AT photography.

In a typical demonstration, addicts are shown drug-related videos that depict people handling a crack pipe or needle.

When he hears a newsboy shouting about a trial, he imagines he is a crack shot being interrogated in the courtroom.

He took a crack at the job.

However, just like her favorite musician Leonard Cohen's singing: There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

An explosion bulge test on a welded plate specimen without a crack starter and sin1ulated weld specimen was conducted.

Yesterday a cub driver made a crack about my pronunciation, because my English is so poor.

She thumped on the rocky ground with both fists. It seemed to shake a little more and a crack appeared.

Yesterday a cub driver made a crack about my pronunciation, because my English is so poor.

She thumped on the rocky ground with both fists. It seemed to shake a little more and a crack appeared.

Then she opened the door a crack and rolled the golden appleinto the festive hall.

whose remains were found next to a crack led to a mysterious crater.

Several years ago my daughter Mimi and I took a crack at running the New York Marathon.

Therefore, there is a crack between history practice and its concept and postmodern historical narrative theory.

With a crack like a whip, Dobby vanished.

An old saying goes, "Step on a crack; break your mother's back. "

Minimum Detective Height and Height Measurement Accuracy Use Diffraction Wave Method to Detect a Crack Height.

segregate to the tip of a crack (Fig. 2) and modify the crazing characteristics of a glassy polymer.

segregate to the tip of a crack (Fig. 2) and modify the crazing characteristics of a glassy polymer.

When he spoke at last, I think his sightline was on a crack in the pavement.

For scientists, the Big Bounce opens a crack in the barrier that was the Big Bang.

A photograph released by officials shows water pouring in a steady jet from a crack in a wall.

The second crack is a crack originating at the groove weld toe of the column flange-girder flange connection.

A crack of joke may inspire students' interest and enthusiasm and then what they learn leaves on them an impression not easily forgotten.

A fold in a flooring of this sort means a crack, means crumbling.

A separate kindergarten less than 20 feet away survived with barely a crack. An adjacent 10-story hotel stood largely undisturbed.

A crack was discovered on Saturday in a concrete pit at the plant's number two reactor.

From secretary you might move to proofreader, then associate editor and maybe someone would then give you a crack as editor.

From secretary you might move to proofreader, then associate editor and maybe someone would then give you a crack as editor.

But when the king looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock.

My company has a crack team of after-sales service throughout the country, a number of offices.

China instead will take a crack at extracting profit by selling the hulking beasts.

Real eggs raw open can see eggshell membrane wavy grain, a crack in this texture to cook an egg cooked disappear, fake eggs to make out.

No glue required: Broken polymer chains reform to repair a crack in this material when it is pressed together and exposed to UV light.

The 2008 cyclone opened the door a crack to more foreign aid.

When this pent-up force exceeds the friction holding the rocks, a crack on the fault forms and grows, and the fault begins to slip.

I grabbed my bike lock and threw it at his car, hitting his rear window and making a crack.

A crack resistant valve plate assembly is provided for use in a slide gate valve.

The diplomat was apparently a crack shot, and all seven bullets found their mark, killing his two pursuers.

I would like to take a crack at the Olympic title again before I retire.

Carr himself was once a crack addict (he wrote about it in "The Night of the Gun" ).

A buildup of water opened a crack in an ice wall along one side of the lake.

I picked up a case, heard a crack, and opened it to find I had broken my sister's $200 acoustic guitar.

A separate kindergarten less than 20 feet away survived with barely a crack.

The water bubbled up through a crack in the basement floor.

A similar process is used to repair a crack in a nickel-based superalloy component.

She looked through a crack in the curtains.

A crack in the hull had been repaired improperly.

The world does not leak because death is not a crack.

"a crack that threatened to become a split" (Booth Tarkington).

The world does not leak become death is not a crack.

A crack of light appeared. Vanity pushed the panel aside.

No; he snarls through a crack in the window; Chilly Chaplin reels off in the storm.

I wonder if he does it or gets a crack team of writers to pen down 140 characters! !

Chockstone - Rock or stone tightly wedged in a crack.

e. g. I was never all athletic person, but I wanted to have a crack at basketball.

The study had three windows, set with little, old fashioned panes of glass, each with, a crack across it.

After a composite material appears a crack, its fibrous position forms bridge, and this is an inevitable phenomenon.

Sidewalks have cracks, and if you step on a crack, you break your mother's back.

Beneath the blue and white Wal-Mart sign at Green Acres, the entrance doors opened a crack.

We were frightened at a crack of thunder.

A line across a surface, as a crack, fissure, or wrinkle.

There is a crack in a plate of steel which makes the material in that area weak in tension and shear.

A study by Americans for Campaign Reform in 2008 put that minimum at $700, 000 for a crack at a seat in the House of Representatives.

v. Oil is seeping out through a crack in the tank.

The wheelchair ripped a crack in his trousers.

He is a lively boy, small eyes, laughing and has only a crack.

There was a crack in the vase.

A crack or flaw caused by the removal of a small piece.

Neymar not crazy, it's a very great person and very good professional, a crack.

Usually the plates just rub up against each other on a crack, also called a fault line.

They would love a crack at France, their former colonial masters.

The balloon went off with a crack.

Groan with toys crossing over a crack.

Cause I'm only a crack in this Castle of Glass.

In their first flight over the glacier in 2011, the IceBridge team discovered a crack.

The world close not leak because death is not a crack.

I'm taking him up for the boss to ' Frisco . A crack dog doctor there thinks that he can cure him.

The glass broke with a crack.

The wave finite element method was used to study the dynamic response under impact loading in a gradient non-homogeneous plate with a crack.

The rain is leaking in through a crack in the roof.

The man peeped in through a crack .

Close examination revealed a crack in the vase.

Through a crack in the rubble, they could see the light fading.

There's a crack on the underneath of the bowl.

That has a crack in the glass tray and lower shelf is scratched.

A fault-a crack in the Earth's crust-runs through the mine.

The result showed that the method not only accurately identifies a crack in a plate but also availability to the two cracks detection.

Did you hear a crack just now? Something must have happened!

A crack or breach in a dike or levee.

Tripped on a crack in the sidewalk.

That's true. Even if a job's not so hot, I'll take a crack at it.

A crack in the love, I will also be useless.

Water welled out from a crack in the pipe.

Steam puffed up from a crack in the metal.

I know, I know, it sounds craZy--talking about. . . finding a crack in time under the East River.

when a crack was heard.

talking about. . . finding a crack in time under the East River.

You may be tired but have a crack at finishing the work.

Stuff a crack with caulking.

I need some water. I was stuck in a crack.

Is there a Crack Fix out that fixes it yet?

So they can squeeze through a crack yea big if they're determined.

Where there is a crack down, there is a mass(of corruptionists), whether in Railway Bureau or in Qilu Petrochemic.

There is a crack in this glass. Show me another one, please.

A long, narrow opening; a crack or cleft.

This soldier is a crack shot.

A crack in the rim of the lens.

There is a crack in the wall.

He spotted a crack in the ground.

We heard a crack of thunder.

A crack is a small break.

This cup has a crack in it.

He is a crack hand at playing chess.

There is a crack in the ice, don't skate around here.

he is a crack shot; a poor shooter.

She is a crack shot with a rifle.

There's a crack in this cup.

A crack in timber caused by wind or frost.

There is a crack in this window.

This is a crack British division.

There is a crack in this glass. Give me another one, please.

There is a crack in your head.

There were no tiger tracks in front of the shed door, which was open a crack.

His friend, who has the blank stare of a crack addict, adds with deranged precision: "89% of them are corrupt. "

I went to block a shot and my studs got stuck in the ground. I went over and then I heard a crack.

In Ming and Qing period, the Shanxi businessman becomes the our country a crack troop of the commercial circles, quick rise.

It is true that some think that my nose is weird, because it has a crack.

Comparison of Experimental Measurements and Numerical Analysis of Out-of-surface Deformation around a Crack Tip

The Vibration Measurement Using ESPI and Crack Detection of a Plate with a Crack

Boundary Element Analysis of Interaction Between an Elastic Rectangular Inclusion and a Crack

Weighted Function Method for a Crack Opening Displacement of an Elliptical Crack

The stress intensity factor of a finite internally cracked stiffened plate with load on a crack surface

Genetic Algorithm for the Identification of a Crack Situated in a Strip

shadows stir at night through a crack in the door

Rapid Simulation of the Coil Impedance Signal for Eddy Current Inspection of the Tube with a Crack

Open your eyes as a crack in the dark

The Reheating Embrittlement of a Crack-free Steel During Post-welding Heat Treatment

Analysis of Bending Failure for Carbon Fiber Sheet-Reinforced Concrete Beams with a Crack

A crack is possible in the immutable,

Open the window a crack.

Leave my door open just a crack

Study of shock wave diffraction over a crack

With a crack of joke, all our worries, sadness, disperse like mist and smoke;

Hole's Welding Problem on the Elastic Half-Plane with a Crack on the Interface

Meso-mechanical Investigation on Three-dimensional Deformation Fields around a Crack Tip

Effect of an elastic square inclusion on a crack tip's stress intensity factor

Analysis and Test of Plate with a Crack under Vibration Loading

A crack-reliability inspection of a railway-spaning bridge on certain high-speed road

Dynamic characteristics of concrete beams with a crack based on a bending spring model

Fracture Research of a Crack-stiffened Plate

with a crack of joke , all our worries and sadness disperse like mist and smoke , and we are full of vim arid vigor once again

Interaction between a crack and near microvoid in piezoelectric materials

Reinforced Concrete Construction a Crack and Transform the Analysis

wedge packing into a crack

delegating all but the most serious matters to a crack team of assistants

A Crack Analysis and Reinforcement Design of Some Prestressed Concrete Continuous Bridge

The court drills a crack in the foundation of Roe. By Ann McDaniel

Gave him a crack at job

Controlling Chaos of Nonlinear Response in Rotor Containing a Crack

a further movement of the tool results in a crack

A Crack to Nature--The Gate and Service Building of the Songhua Lake

The fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe

The Effect of an Elastic Triangular Inclusion on a Crack

A Crack Dynamics Problem Model of Composite Materials

The Complex Analysis Solation around a Crack Tip in the Thin Current Plate

Is flowing to Paris through a crack

Locating a crack in a beam by neural networks