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  • America was half-in and "led from behind," but the dictator's fate was sealed.

    Gadhafi and the Swindle of Dictatorship Fouad Ajami 2011

  • None of this half-in, half-out, “the President is sending in troops” stuff.

    Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 10/05/09 2009

  • She had rolled onto her side and was lying half-in and half-out of a puddle of filthy water.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • At the start of this solid noir from Gischler Suicide Squeeze, the police chief of Coyote Crossing, Okla., asks Toby Sawyer, a part-time deputy, to keep an eye on the bullet-ridden body of redneck Luke Jordan, found late one night lying half-in and half-out of an old pickup truck.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Victor Gischler 2009

  • Radical Islamists already preach jihad in prisons -- this was how the just-arrested New York synagogue bombers were recruited -- and criminal gangs have proved that a half-in/half-out management model works.

    Why It's So Hard to Close Gitmo 2009

  • At the start of this solid noir from Gischler Suicide Squeeze, the police chief of Coyote Crossing, Okla., asks Toby Sawyer, a part-time deputy, to keep an eye on the bullet-ridden body of redneck Luke Jordan, found late one night lying half-in and half-out of an old pickup truck.

    Publisher's Weekly on THE DEPUTY Victor Gischler 2009

  • And there, exhausted by the Herculean effort, the fish rested, its tail still in the water, its head on the dry sand, gills opening and closing like fire bellows, shocked and pumping and gasping in this new amphibian state, half-in and half-out of the two vastly different worlds.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Stiles froze, candy bar half-in, half-out of his mouth, and slowly leaned his head back to stare up at the ceiling.

    Thunder and Ashes Z.A. Recht 2008

  • And there, exhausted by the Herculean effort, the fish rested, its tail still in the water, its head on the dry sand, gills opening and closing like fire bellows, shocked and pumping and gasping in this new amphibian state, half-in and half-out of the two vastly different worlds.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • And there, exhausted by the Herculean effort, the fish rested, its tail still in the water, its head on the dry sand, gills opening and closing like fire bellows, shocked and pumping and gasping in this new amphibian state, half-in and half-out of the two vastly different worlds.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

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