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  • Turnoff Week, formerly Turn-off TV Week and now in its ninth year, calls for people around the world to turn off their electronics, disengage from digital media and take a moment to think, read and create.

    Lesli Rotenberg: Tuning-In During "Turnoff" Week Lesli Rotenberg 2010

  • There, he turned to the right, into the way called locally "Hammond's Turn-off."

    Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • The answer came from a short distance down the "Turn-off."

    Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • She had said precisely the same thing on that other evening, when they stood in the middle of "Hammond's Turn-off" in the driving rain.

    Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • And, at eleven o'clock, when the village was in bed, a horse and buggy moved down the Turn-off and stopped before the Hammond gate.

    Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • A short distance down the "Turn-off" stood a small, brown-shingled building, its windows alight.

    Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • A lantern danced and wabbled up the "Turn-off" from the direction of the bay shore and the packet wharf.

    Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • But she stumbled on, up the main road to the Corners, down the "Turn-off," past the chapel of the Come-Outers, from the open window of which sounded the drone of a high, nasal voice.

    Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • The broad-shouldered skipper led his charge out of the gate and down the "Turn-off."

    Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • Turn-off: A model is not the ideal wife for most men

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