741126b A policeman's lot is not an happy one
A policeman's lot is not an happy one
(Gilbert & Sullivan, Pirates of Penzance)
When constabulary duty's to be done, to be done, a policeman's lot is not an happy one, happy . . .
Anyway, I was
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Dan Eggleston
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rita mom
In 1965, Lenny and I were married in front of a justice of the peace at City Hall in New York. I wore a pretty, simple little dress. After the ceremony, we went out for Chinese food with his best man,
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Dan Eggleston
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snake
Leanne Chapman of Brisbane, Australia, came home recently and noticed something on her balcony. Her Christmas tree was surrounded by birds who were - her words - going crazy. She went to see what the
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Dan Eggleston
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johnston kashiwagi
Akio Kashiwagi was a crafty soul. He wheeled and dealed for rebates and credit on a scale available only to those willing to risk millions of dollars on each trek to the tables. He also seemed to have
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Dan Eggleston
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cleese movie laughter
It has to do with physiology because, in a half-hour format, you can start fairly straight and for twenty-two minutes it can simply get funnier and funnier. But you try to do that in a movie and you
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Dan Eggleston
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wu Amos and Andy
One evening in 1928, at a friend's home in Chicago, at 7 p.m. to be exact, Templin heard something quite different on the radio, something along the lines of:
"Dell me 'dis one ding - is you a
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Dan Eggleston
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greger nationalist flu names
This base human tendency, born of fear and distrust, can fester into a Lord of the Flies social pathology of hate. The bubonic plague led to violent attacks upon minorities such as Jews, especially
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Dan Eggleston
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rita elvis
Ironically, Elvis worshiped Marlon Brando. Marlon was one of his favorite actors. In fact, Elvis had patterned his black leather and swaggering attitude on Marlon's "iconic" antisocial biker Johnny
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Dan Eggleston
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PM
Anyone can get on the ballot in the U.K. if they pay 500 pounds. So while Boris Johnson led his party to a massive election victory in the U.K. against Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, he had other
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Dan Eggleston
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rita JFK
Gorgeous! It was the very first time I'd ever seen a woman wearing white opera gloves. In other words, a lady.
As this couple slowly walked in, sauntering as though to catch everyone's attention, the
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Dan Eggleston
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cleese chinese race
Let me tell you a story. In the 1920s a professor at Oxford and a professor in Beijing communicated with each other by mail for many years. Eventually the Chinese professor wrote saying that he was
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Dan Eggleston
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hochschild treaty
The very word TREATY is a euphemism, for many chiefs had no idea what they were signing. Few had seen the written word before, and they were being asked to mark their X's to documents in a foreign
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Dan Eggleston
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greger live poultry markets throughout the northeastern
In 1998, 30% of the markets were infected with H7N2, particularly in the New York metropolitan area. New York has more live markets than all other states in the Northeast combined. By 2001, inspectors
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Dan Eggleston
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741126a How are the mighty fallen
How are the mighty fallen
(Book of Samuel)
When you come right down to it, which is what I often have to do, being rather tall, we're none of us as clever as we sometimes condider ourselves to
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Dan Eggleston
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rita ann miller
When I was a young starlet at MGM, part of my job was to attend social events. At the behest of the publicity department I was asked to do a number of things, among them to be taken by the publicity
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Dan Eggleston
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boulder
When a boulder fell on a Colorado highway, the San Miguel County Sheriff's Office responded with a warning. A tweet said the road was blocked by, quote, "a large boulder the size of a small boulder."
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Dan Eggleston
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johnston kashiwagi
Akio Kashiwagi was a crafty soul. He wheeled and dealed for rebates and credit on a scale available only to those willing to risk millions of dollars on each trek to the tables. He also seemed to have
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Dan Eggleston
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mayer Thomas began to ask her
Thomas began to ask her out socially three to five months after she began working for him in July 1981, according to Hill. His approach was unusual. Rather than asking her to join him for a specific
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Dan Eggleston
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woodward kushner
Bossie, now Bannon's deputy campaign manager, was involved in the day-to-day management and hundreds of daily decisions and quickly learned who had the real authority. He would be in a meeting with
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Dan Eggleston
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greger imported animals
The deputy director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service testified before a Senate committee in 2003 that the United States imports more than 200 million fish, 49 million amphibians, 2 million
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Dan Eggleston
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