Grim reminders of it were strewn along the road: burned carcasses of old Soviet tanks, overturned military trucks gone to rust, a crushed Russian jeep that had plunged over the mountainside.
In June, two men in the Ural Mountains died after posing pulling the pin from a hand grenade; in May a woman survived shooting herself in the head in her Moscow office; a month later a 21-year-old university graduate plunged 40 feet (12 metres) to her death while posing hanging from a Moscow bridge.
" Now they came to the border of the grove, crossed a little stream, and plunged headlong among the trees and shrubs.
Not only does it encourage domestic production but also purchases of cheap imports as global grain prices plunged.
Alibaba plunged 8.
So when the temperature plunged I finally swathed myself in the sensual layers of mink.
The ratings downgrade had been anticipated for weeks, and yet after its publication on Monday the ruble plunged to new lows against the dollar.
The sharp decline in unemployment will start to seem real The unemployment rate has plunged over the past three years to 5.
In 1990-91, about 29 percent of bachelor's degrees awarded in computer and information sciences went to women; 20 years later, it has plunged to 18 percent.
They thought that he was calling them to come, and the whole lot of them hastily plunged in after him.
The stock market's average price/earnings ratio, meanwhile, is in free fall, having plunged about 35% during the past year, the largest 12-month decline since 2003.
The prices of the panels have plunged 70 percent in the past five years.
At that moment, a man plunged into the river bravely and swam at a staggering speed to the other side.
Last year, a Spanish man plunged to his death while taking photos, reigniting the debate over whether a security fence should be installed to protect visitors.
NS) flight plunged almost 5,000 ft (1,520 m) over Turkish airspace last week, after some news reports said one pilot was asleep and the other was busy on a flight management device.
They did not fall alone; with a choked cry, the coxswain loosed his grasp upon the shrouds and plunged head first into the water.
The four shots came in rather a scattering volley, but they did the business: one of the enemy actually fell, and the rest, without hesitation, turned and plunged into the trees.
The crews raced for the beach, but the boat I was in, having some start and being at once the lighter and the better manned, shot far ahead of her consort, and the bow had struck among the shore-side trees and I had caught a branch and swung myself out and plunged into the nearest thicket while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards behind.
Murphy ploughed back and forth in their midst, like a soft mountain down which plunged an audible cataract of tears.
With a snappy Good-morning, Pitcher, Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it, and then plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him.
