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During the Civil War, Union Colonel Pembroke (James Coburn) surrenders his position at Fort Holman to Rebel forces, and once court martialed, makes an offer to Major Charles Ballard to take the fort back with a handful of men.

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With every handful of the powder they throw into the air, their white saris slowly start to suffuse with color.

There are fewer than a handful of palu left on this island.

Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a handful [of] men and women of conviction and courage.

But the recent developments in software-defined radio, rapid fabrication and the maker movement, make it so that it's possible for a team of teenagers working in my lab over the course of a handful of months to build a prototype radar.

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