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  • At times the pilot felt like an episode of Weeds, but without the great Mary-Louise Parker ruling over everything with an iron-plated cup of Diet Coke.

    Hey, Juno Fans! Diablo Cody's United States of Tara Premieres Online 2009

  • At times the pilot felt like an episode of Weeds, but without the great Mary-Louise Parker ruling over everything with an iron-plated cup of Diet Coke.

    Hey, Juno Fans! Diablo Cody's United States of Tara Premieres Online 2009

  • I was driven by this crazy idea that I might, at the very best, make a tiny, tiny dent in a giant iron-plated machine, like attacking an army tank with a hammer.

    Danny Elfman: Battling Our Greatest Fear 2008

  • Employee Nathan: "You think Marvel Comics ever considered doing a iron-plated cover for a special issue of Iron Man?"

    Archive 2006-02-26 2006

  • Employee Nathan: "You think Marvel Comics ever considered doing a iron-plated cover for a special issue of Iron Man?"

    Archive 2006-02-26 2006

  • She found herself wishing that Hawk would return, even knowing she was perfectly safe within the shelter of their hideout, behind the reinforced iron-plated doors and heavy concrete walls and with Cheney to protect them.

    Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006

  • She was midway through the piecrust assembly when Cheney scrambled to his feet and stood facing the iron-plated door once again.

    Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006

  • Cheney, head lowered, ears flat, and hair bristling, faced the iron-plated door that opened onto the outer corridors of the underground city.

    Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006

  • In sum, the Presbyterianism of the dank Scottish moors belonged to nearly every iron-plated spiritual concept that the poet-mystics of Concord and Boston were trying to abolish.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • In one of his unfinished fiction manuscripts, “Simon Wheeler, Detective,” the writer transports the father of his memory onto the page in iron-plated strokes.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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