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  • noun Plural form of leaflet.

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Examples

  • Only one friend has ever received the leaflets twice. link) * sends big box of how-to-vote leaflets*

    Even in a little thing 2010

  • Hi — In 1967 a US navy nurse, Lieutenant Susan Schnall, was court-martialed for dropping antiwar leaflets from a plane on navy installations.

    Welcome « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2007

  • I say this because I always make a point to look at Israeli terrorist propaganda in Arabic: leaflets, messages, etc.

    Saturday, January 03, 2009 As'ad 2009

  • The civil disorder and violence is due to the disorganization and lack of information to the evacuees†¦ we distributed leaflets to the Iraqi people before bombing†¦ why are officials not dropping leaflets from the helicopters to peoples in the superdome on the bridges letting them know exactly what the plan is to evacuate and provide them the aid they need.

    Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Source was responsible for collecting leaflets from the KIEN TUONG

    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT 1996

  • When the battalion was in the area preparing to go on a mission, Source obtained leaflets from the Political Cell of the SVAY RIENG Province Unit.

    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT 1996

  • On 10 December in the university Aula, just as Marshall was accepting the prize from Dr. Hambro, vice-chairman of the committee, some communist journalists interrupted the ceremony, dropping leaflets from the balcony and shouting, "We protest!"

    George C. Marshall - Acceptance Speech 1953

  • …. the anti-Semitic rhetoric in Hamas leaflets is frequent and intense.

    Matthew Yglesias » Why They Fight 2009

  • Setting: untidy little kitchen; long table around which we take our places when the interview begins; books on the floor; a big fax machine from twenty years ago; watercolors I think at first are stained-glass windows, which he tells me he painted himself; photos from films in which he appeared, as Chief Big Tree and Chief Thundercloud did before him; poster saying don't blame me, i voted for russell means; leaflets from the campaign he's running now, for the presidency of the Tribal Agency, against the man from yesterday's powwow, John Yellowbird Steele; and leaflets in support of George W. Bush, whose side I already knew he had joined.

    In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005

  • Setting: untidy little kitchen; long table around which we take our places when the interview begins; books on the floor; a big fax machine from twenty years ago; watercolors I think at first are stained-glass windows, which he tells me he painted himself; photos from films in which he appeared, as Chief Big Tree and Chief Thundercloud did before him; poster saying don't blame me, i voted for russell means; leaflets from the campaign he's running now, for the presidency of the Tribal Agency, against the man from yesterday's powwow, John Yellowbird Steele; and leaflets in support of George W. Bush, whose side I already knew he had joined.

    In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005

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