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• n  a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place

• The latest in the series of hairpin turns saw Darwin's wife, Anne, admit that she knew her husband, who was declared legally dead in 2003, has been alive and well.
• The Communists fired on them comfortably at steep grades and hairpin turns, where the marines' vehicles slowed to a crawl.
• In a soothing monotone, he highlights the scariest hairpin turns on his itinerary, the ones that combine difficulty with danger plus a jolt of existential risk.

News & Articles

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• “No One Should Get a Free Pass….”
  Thanks to Cato’s Caleb Brown for this graphic reminder of then-candidate Barack Obama’s hairpin backflip on the question of telecom immunity —one that was to prefigure his backflips on a long list of other surveillance and civil liberties issues.
  June 12, 2013 - Cato Institute

Quotes

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• Lewis Hamilton in ITV.com
  Magny-Cours isn't the easiest place to overtake but it's certainly possible,Lewis said. "You can dive down the inside into the Adelaide Hairpin and also have a look into the penultimate corner." "But an area we can really focus on...
• Sebastien Bourdais in Motorsport.com
  It was a tough day for the McDonald's team,said Bourdais. "I made a mistake under yellow. Actually I made the first mistake after passing Justin after making a good start. I braked on the inside at the hairpin so that I didn' t squeeze him...
• John Barrowman in Scottish Daily Record
  Some parts of the rally are very fast, even quicker than in Finland. The difference is that the fast parts here don't last long because there are usually hairpin bends that bring the speeds down again. The nature of the roads changes more than in... Mikko Hirvonen http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikko_Hirvonen&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFHbZ5csXFdYUbUPZVk5mTyxiKipQ Auto Racing Daily http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.autoracingdaily.com/news/world-rally-championship/ford-take-world-title-challenge-to-final-round-face-off-in-wales/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHRe1eug6Baaeol4y7TjaGrNNtuvg Nov 28, 2008 44858 61309 hairsbreadth John Barrowman, Larbert, said: The same players who were a hairsbreadth away from making the World Cup and the European Championship under Walter Smith and Alex McLeish are now struggling. That has to be the manager's fault and Joe Jordan would get...