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As Ted Lewis writes in The New Orleans Times-Picayune, everyone is officially against the one-and-done phenomenon and even its biggest beneficiary, Kentucky Coach John Calipari, will furrow his brow and appear concerned on cue.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2012

Malone Dies will furrow many another critical brow, but few will quarrel with the author's description of his hero's basic condition: "molten gloom."

From Time Magazine Archive

So he will furrow his brow and gaze doggily at the speaker, as if he's trying hard to listen to your problems so his head won't explode from all of his.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sunbeam's hair will be streaked with gray, And Time will furrow my darling's brow; But never can Time's hand take away The tender halo that clasps it now.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

Yea, Romans, we will furrow through the foam Of swelling floods, and to the sacred twins Make sacrifice, to shield our ships from storms.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various