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  • The only degree that Mugabe deserves is a dunce cap, preferably a lead-weighted dunce cap that I can slam over his head.

    Mugabe Loses Honorary Degree From UMass - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Unfortunately. if you're a middle-class Blue-Collar worker, without a multi-million-dollar K-Street Lobbyist on retainer, all you get from Washington when you need help is a lead-weighted kiss-off note and an iron-fisted middle-finger salute from Washington!

    Bail-Outs for Billionaires, but not a dime in loans for the Middle Class 2008

  • The only degree that Mugabe deserves is a dunce cap, preferably a lead-weighted dunce cap that I can slam over his head.

    Mugabe Loses Honorary Degree From UMass - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The 30-something engineers dress themselves in lead-weighted clothing and restrictive gear to replicate lack of mobility and flexibility that older people suffer from.

    Do Older Generations Matter to the Internet? 2008

  • The veteran pilot arranged with the “leadsman,” the deckhand who took constant soundings of the channel depth with a lead-weighted rope, to falsely cry out smaller and smaller depths as Sam manned the pilot wheel across a passage that he knew to be safe and deep.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • The veteran pilot arranged with the “leadsman,” the deckhand who took constant soundings of the channel depth with a lead-weighted rope, to falsely cry out smaller and smaller depths as Sam manned the pilot wheel across a passage that he knew to be safe and deep.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • All I can say is, if I ever get a hold of a lead-weighted Giggle-Doll?

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005

  • The photographs were stunning, shot with grainy black-and-white film in Jim Crow jails and work camps, when the convicts still wore stripes and the hacks carried lead-weighted walking canes and made no attempt to hide the spiritual cancer that lived in their faces.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • The slapjack was perhaps eight inches long, thin, mounted on a spring, lead-weighted and swollen at the tip, like the head on a snake.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • The photographs were stunning, shot with grainy black-and-white film in Jim Crow jails and work camps, when the convicts still wore stripes and the hacks carried lead-weighted walking canes and made no attempt to hide the spiritual cancer that lived in their faces.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

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