A man wearing jeans and a tool belt had rigged yellow ropes around the vehicle as soon as it came to a stop to ensure that no one got that close.

But the man at the other end of the line-a line carefully rigged to be nice and weak and noisy-said just that.

TheDido was now like a suddenly disturbed anthill: men were hurriedly rigging head pumps and sluicing water across the decks; others were scattering sand.

He gestured to the taffrail, where three men were rigging a short spar vertically.

Together, the men rigged a thumbnailsized amount of C-4 around the handle and around each hinge.

Officials angrily denied that a man accused of being in organized crime had rigged the skating results.

The old man had rigged an escapement, in a world that hadn't invented anything more elaborate than the water clock.

The men around him were rigging shade, collapsing.

The sheriff's men were rigging a Perlon climbing rope around the large ponderosa pine at the edge of the patio.

Twenty men were rigging a line from the lake water to a mine pump.