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Together, they will be leading a course entitled Whittling the Waist
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Whittling down their sprawling franchises to reduce their importance, or disentangling, is another story.
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Whittling 300 hours of footage to a spellbinding 77 minutes edited over a year and a half, The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan has more questions than answers.
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Whittling 300 hours of footage to a spellbinding 77 minutes edited over a year and a half, The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan has more questions than answers.
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Whittling my short list of about 50 films which had already been whittled down from a list of about 100 to the 10 you see above was rough.
FirstShowing's Writers Choose the Best Movies of the Decade « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Whittling away at myself, eating nothing but sunflower seeds and drinking Tab.
Pleiku Jacket 2010
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Whittling down a story to dialog and captions, then turning over the action of the story to an illustrator is scary and exciting!
Archive 2010-05-01 Editorial Anonymous 2010
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 8/18/09: Abolish the Senate, Starting with Some Whittling yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Abolish the Senate, Starting with Some Whittling'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Seeing the way a handful of senators are serving their health industry contributors better than they are their constituents, or the health of the nation, it is clear the US Senate itself needs some major surgery.
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Whittling down some wood to get a rounded, conical and slender shape is not too easy, I found.
Archive 2009-07-01 a stitch in time 2009
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Whittling down some wood to get a rounded, conical and slender shape is not too easy, I found.
Back to earth. a stitch in time 2009
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