Parasols floated above the models'lacquered heads, presumably held aloft by rip cord, held taut in each hand, as they walked through the galleries, like figures in a society painting suddenly come to life.
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A special feature is the skycoaster, a kind of simulated freefall in which riders are hoisted 170 feet into the air, then pull a rip cord that swings them out over a lake.
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Fairfax manages to get out of his mine, but when he pulls the rip cord of his parachute, the whole chute falls off, which makes him less keen on the whole bomb dropping idea.
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Skeptics note that other indices besides the Dow already have lost more than 15 percent and that investors have held on, but mounting declines across-the-board could eventually lead to investors pulling the rip cord.
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Had Jones'early venture into professional football not worked, he could have pulled the rip cord on his $ 140 million investment, gone home to Arkansas and quietly blended back into the oil and gas business.
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He fell into the open hatch and jammed it closed until Flight engineer Roy Vigars reached him to quickly clip on Friday's parachute and toss him out the hatch while pulling the unconscious crewman's rip cord.
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Before returning to the 31st century, Lightning Lad gives Superman a new Legion flight ring with an " emergency rip cord " that will bring him to the Legion s era in case of an emergency.
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Then, plunging earthward in a headlong free-fall _ with two of the professional parachutists holding his harness and guiding him _ he pulled the rip cord at 4, 500 feet and floated alone under a rainbow-hued canopy to a pillow-soft landing.
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In the film, Ripcord is African American, a newcomer to G . I . Joe, and one of the film's major characters; the traditional Rip Cord, however, is Caucasian, a G . I . Joe veteran, and more of a background character.
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Later Chinese texts revealed that the Chinese land mine employed either a rip cord or a motion booby trap of a pin releasing falling weights that rotated a steel arcuballista that fired arrow bolts holding gunpowder packets near the head of the arrow.
