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"I have to go to page 3, a-b-c, yellow-green-purple, backspace three times; then I had to do a cartwheel and wash my face," he told an investor conference.

A Little Tough Talk 2008

Why the GOP DOESNT want to get rid of Socialist Security by Chris Bieber on Saturday, Oct 25, 2008 at 12: 31: 08 PM a-b-c -- by vthom on Saturday, Oct 25, 2008 at 1: 51: 30 PM

End Social Security �� Republicans 2008

But to truly understand “why” requires a political argument so substantive in its understanding that it runs deeper than the a-b-c, 1-2-3 level of simplicity that the American public can digest without suffering from complex information gas.

Think Progress » Bush Caught on Tape: “A Wiretap Requires A Court Order. Nothing Has Changed.” 2005

It is based on a twelve bar progression and follows an a-b-c line structure in the verses, with the c line always the same line of, "That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O 'Lee."

Jim Crow Bluesman Harry 1998

"Run along," jeered another; "you better go and play with the a-b-c boys at the schoolhouse."

Master Sunshine C. F. Fraser

I haven't studied my kind for this long without knowing at least the a-b-c of human nature.

An American Suffragette Isaac N. Stevens

A man, ef he's any kind of a man, don't have to learn his a-b-c before he can tell a good-lookin 'gal she's in his head, or his heart -- jest which you're a min' ter -- most of the time.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

The open sight is the semi-circular notch a-b-c shown in the diagram below; the peep sight is the small hold "d" just below the open sight.

The Plattsburg Manual A Handbook for Military Training Olin Oglesby Ellis 1920

"I know it like a-b-c, and then I get up and try it and all at once I'm just a plain damned fool."

Dangerous Days Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

If a boy is to be a blacksmith after he's grown, and if a girl in the same class is to be a music-teacher, or a milliner, both must learn about _a-b-c_ and _d-e-f_.

Fran 1913