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  • The failure of their policies is seen in recrudesence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and a bloody stalemate in Iraq.

    Pelosi and Conyers-- Smarter than Impeachment- 2006

  • Suppression of Vice, but quickly extending to every city in the land; then the long fight upon the open gambling house, culminating in its practical disappearance; then the recrudesence of prohibition, abandoned at the outbreak of the Civil War, and the attempt to enforce it in a rapidly growing list of States; then the successful onslaught upon the

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

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