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Mrs. Pozniak stepped out of the hardware store with a tiny brown paper bag that jingled.

Wanda stepped forward to take them; but no, Michael unrolled the cotton himself and tore a wad from one corner.

On impulse Selena stood and walked up the aisle to the very front of the carriage, then stepped through a door and out onto an observation platform.

As he withdrew, Tanaghrisson stepped up to where Jumonville lay.

There, nothing was familiar, not its soil, its climate, its vegetation, nor its jungle full of wild animals, and even less its inhabitants.... From the moment one stepped on its shores, one felt that the safety of one's life lay in the machete or revolver....As head of the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) from 1952 to 1958, he had mobilized thousands of young people from Khrushchev's "Virgin Lands" campaign to turn vast areas of steppe into arable farmland.

Into the void stepped Novell.

PARENTS fighting to save city primary schools from closure under a council cost-cutting scheme have stepped up their campaign.

Continued combat won't play well stateside, but a conciliatory attitude or reduction in forces will only embolden militants and encourage stepped-up violence meant to drive out remaining occupiers.

The servants resemble the kind of odd-bods you encounter in the corner of a fresco, while Sian Brooke's heart-stoppingly young and beautiful Juliet looks as if she has stepped out of a painting by Botticelli.

I was driven there by a niggling skin rash (which had flared up as I stepped up a three-times-a-week gym habit). Of course, I was a source of some entertainment to other patients as the only foreigner around.

But Gibson called her up on stage to sing two old spirituals with him, "Virgin Mary Had One Son" and "Jordan River". After a couple of verses, he stepped back from the mikes and Joan let rip.

They stepped up by getting me the ball, and I stepped up by scoring, and we all stepped up by playing as a team. Brothers David and Schenel Joseph were arrested after fighting with two security guards in the cafeteria of Far Rockaway HS. The officers had initially stepped in because David was "causing a commotion."But Welch, in a subsequent telephone interview, brushed aside that explanation, saying that he had asked for the money to be sent to his foundation, which is endowed with $13 million, when he stepped down from GE. "It was one of the alternatives," Welch said, noting that other directors before him had made the same choice.

At the monthly Chamber of Commerce mixer at the Dorset Playhouse, Jack Clark stepped up to center stage to receive the Unsung Hero award for 2003 given by the Manchester and the Mountains Chamber of Commerce.

"Once we realized we needed to view White Center in the bigger picture, we stepped into this new role as a neighborhood revitalization agency," said Stephen Norman, King County Housing Authority executive director.

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