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Might it have been a wake-up call for a team that had been dispatching opponents so easily with the flick of Aaron Rodgers’s wrist and needed a good test before the playoffs?

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2011

On the Sunday one of my people came over, thanks to the cheery telegrams the War Office had been dispatching.

From Fanny Goes to War by Washington, Pat Beauchamp