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Even the era of hold-your-nose-and-cooperate-for-the-good-of-the-country is over.

Serving as a lawmaker means dining on an endless buffet of foul-smelling choices, cheesy compromises, and hold-your-nose votes.

The hold-your-breath portion of the speech came last, when the president turned to the Israeli-Palestinian question.

The hold-your-nose solution may have been ugly, but the Apocalypse was averted.

Opposite is a little, hold-your-own school-mistressy young person in pince-nez.

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