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The fiery windup, however, shoved Superal back on top at 133 with Chonlada Chayanun (67-135) joining the title chase in the P1.5 million event serving as the sixth leg of the 2018-19 Ladies Philippine Golf Tour circuit.
16 with birdies on the last two that somehow cushioned the impact of Carlos' fiery windup that spiked the latter's bogey-free 67 in another day of torrid scoring at the Pueblo De Oro layout.
For both toys, the teacher's instruction was the same: He demonstrated only the windup mechanism.
When a car suddenly starts or stops, front-down or rear-down posture occurs, imposing a rotational torque or "windup torque" on the leaf spring [22].
A Question of Free Will pairs painted studies of spindly-legged windup toys (on the left) with a monochrome surface on which the toys themselves, dipped in black paint and then set in motion, have scuffed trails of "footprints" (on the right).
Before we all dash off to the supermarkets and DIY stores,perhaps we can just mull over this windup radio contraption for a moment.
If you're dancing the twist, it's all in the windup. Need cheap but fabulous vintage costumes?
But neither the identification factor nor the sweaty sex compensates for eyeball-rolling dialogue, tortured music, and a howler of a windup that serves up a pre-Stonewall (if not pre-Barbara Stanwyck) notion of poetic justice.
The bishop said the diocese has been working on a windup plan so it will have some control over what happens rather than "simply sit on our hands and wait for a receiver to walk in and take over our operation."
The high torsional stiffness eliminates or minimizes windup problems.