heckuva

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Take Hansbrough out of that lineup, and you've still got what Williams would undoubtedly refer to as a heckuva frickin 'team.

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  • Looked at that way, Brownie really was doing a "heckuva" job by ignoring the pleas of the dying in New Orleans and handing out government contracts for formaldehyde-laden trailers that failed to provide safe emergency housing for the survivors. —  FightingBob.com
  • How can this guy say this with a straight face after his administrations heckuva-job-Brownie job doing zero about Katrina? —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Getting rid of The Editor is a scary thing but I can't help but think that if I did, I'd be a heckuva lot more interesting and so would this blog. —  odd time signatures
  • Which is a heckuva lot like USA recalls, which the USDA always tries to frame as "voluntary" and initiated by the slaughterhouse. —  Vegan.com Blog
  • Russ, I think I can speak for all by saying that was one heckuva piece. —  Baseball Analysts
 

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