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McMilllen clearly recalled Baize's first -- and only -- day at Itawamba Agricultural.

The Bilerico Project Joe Mirabella 2010

Nicknamed ‘the Beckham of the Baize’ because of his dazzling looks, his stunning wife and his ambition to be the best, Paul will be remembered as one of the finest snooker players ever to pick up a snooker cue.

Beckham of the baize 2007

As Borley Rectory and the Green-Baize Door points out, in Victorian times a green door led to the servant's section, the behind-the-scenes part of a house, and that could be the origin of its mystique as a front for hidden activities, as exemplified here in Valentine Williams' 1919 Okewood of the Secret Service.

languagehat.com: LUKOIL, THE GREEN DOOR, AND IT. 2004

Baize; green, blue, and brown Upper surface of key-frame, cushions for hammers to fall on, to damp dead part of strings, &c.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

Baize doors communicated on every floor with Mr. Annison's part, and he, an anxious gentleman, would stroll backwards and forwards,

The Longest Journey 1924

Representatives Chamber in _Boston_, a long Camblet Cloak, lin'd with red Baize: Whoever has taken the same is desired to refresh his Memory, and return it to Mr. _Baker_, Keeper of the Court-House.

The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts 1860

An estimate of 2 million tons of corn imports by China "is rational," as the country's production struggles to keep pace with demand, John Baize, who runs international agricultural trade and policy consulting company John Baize and Associates said at a conference in Singapore.

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

I would recommend to you the Green Baize Gown, and if that will not answer, You recollect the Bear Skin.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 3 December 1788 1788

Baize has since relocated to Florida, and likely will not press charges against the school district.

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According to Kristy Bennett, legal director of the ACLU in Mississippi, Baize was given no rationale for the two punishments.

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