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  • She could protest until hell froze over, but the Robertses were a threat to her and that threat was not going to continue.

    Wicked Pleasures Leigh, Lora 2008

  • The Robertses were a pioneering family, coming to Hamilton County in 1834.

    IndyStar.com Top Stories 2009

  • Themselves an intermarried couple he's Jewish, she's Catholic, the Robertses have for decades hosted a Passover seder, mostly for other interfaith families.

    Is Passover the New Christmas? Diane Cole 2011

  • There have been pairs of justices with the same surname: two Chases, Harlans, Jacksons, Johnsons, Lamars, Marshalls, Robertses and Whites.

    The Monster That Ate Congress James Taranto 2010

  • When papers arrived informing the Robertses they could lose their benefits, "Linda was in bed two or three days," Mr. Roberts recalled.

    Chapter 11 Benefits Battles Get Fierce 2010

  • From July 21, 2005: "The Robertses are evidently the sort of people, like most Americans, who confound culture war categories."

    Bill Scher: The David Brooks Spin Machine: From Roberts To Kagan 2010

  • To honor the looming Comcast/NBC Universal mergerpocalypse, the Robertses presented Comcast employees with two of the hottest DVDs in the Universal catalog: fullscreen copies of "Kindergarten Cop" and "The Bourne Ultimatum."

    Comcast Celebrates Conquest Of NBC With Gifts Of Sh*tty DVDs - The Consumerist 2009

  • One of my great-uncles said the first Robertses and Tuckers met a blue-eyed, red-haired Welsh-speaking Indian.

    Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

  • Napoleon Bonaparte Broward was a piece of work, an operator, a smart political cookie from a long line of smart political cookies, starting with his great-grandfather François Brouard and coming on down to the Tuckers and the Robertses.

    Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

  • But my great-aunts, though always ready to advertise the Tuckers, Robertses, and Browards there were votes in it when one of the boys was running for office, never told a story about Rufus the Seminole Fighter.

    Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

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