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In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
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The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work.
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Protestors say the president is cracking down on free speech.
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It was a street-sweep, and violence had broken out, and the government was cracking down.
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His foot caught; it is unknown in what,—in a twisted tie, or perhaps in a crevice of the cracking earth.
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The man called Shiv was driving Delancy's get-away car at a conservative pace so as not to excite suspicion.
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Ten minutes later, Delancy drove the get-away car out of the service station.
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It was in this room that Delancy's get-away car had changed paint jobs, and in about ten minutes.
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But the exquisite was used to it; he would only have felt badly if they had ignored his new get-up.
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