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  • More trivia time: 50-40 is named after a phrase from US expansionism, James K. Polk's campaign slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!".

    day off 2005

  • Chapter Fifty-Four The tour bus became strangely silent.

    Roses are Red Patterson, James, 1947- 2000

  • Chapter Fifty-Four For the second time in my life I understood what it felt like to be a victim of a terrible crime rather than the detective investigating it.

    Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999

  • Chapter Fifty-Four For the second time in my life I understood what it felt like to be a victim of a terrible crime rather than the detective investigating it.

    Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999

  • Chapter Fifty-Four The Prahbrindrah Drah turned slowly before a mirror, admiring himself.

    Dreams of Steel Cook, Glen 1990

  • "However, before any attempt is made to determine this question, we should first establish, by testimony, just what happened at Holloway's camp, in Cold Creek Valley, on the af - ternoon of June I9, Atomic Era Six Fifty-Four, and once this is es'tablished, we can then proceed to the question of whether or not the said Goldilocks was truly a sapient being."

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • Some time afterwards, while Burke was in his last illness, feeble and failing fast, this faithless scrivener communicated this copy to an equally faithless publisher, by whom it was advertised as "Fifty-Four Articles of Impeachment against the Eight Honorable C.J. Fox."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

  • "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" forced a settlement of the Oregon boundary.

    History of the United States Mary Ritter Beard 1917

  • Fifty-Four, and the waters of a continent flowed toward the Arctic

    The Flaming Forest James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight." \% -- So much attention was thus attracted to Oregon, in 1843, that the people by 1844 began to demand a settlement of the boundary and an end of joint occupation.

    A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

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