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Do we outlaw guns in all places with small kids for the risk they will get a-hold of the gun and hurt someone?
On Guns In Bars 2009
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Do we outlaw guns in all places with small kids for the risk they will get a-hold of the gun and hurt someone?
On Guns In Bars 2009
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When asked about lobbying by the United Nations for control over the Web as an alternative to Icann, Ms. Dyson correctly calls this a "fate worse than death" and quotes this warning from a poem by British poet Hilaire Belloc: "Always keep a-hold of Nurse / For fear of finding something worse."
A New Challenge for Web Freedom L. Gordon Crovitz 2012
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I think maybe people ` s imaginations started to get a-hold of them.
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I think maybe people ` s imaginations started to get a-hold of them.
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MARIAN CONAWAY, COLLEEN CONAWAY'S MOTHER: All I know is she was alone, no ID, no means of getting a-hold of us or anyone in a big city where she didn't know anyone.
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MARIAN CONAWAY, COLLEEN CONAWAY'S MOTHER: All I know is she was alone, no ID, no means of getting a-hold of us or anyone in a big city where she didn't know anyone.
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And clearly this person ` s decision-making was so poor, so flawed, drug-induced and once that inherently compulsive drug gets a-hold of somebody, all rational, reasonable decision making goes out window.
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“And always keep a-hold of nurse/For fear of finding something worse.”
What are we to make of this? Helen 2007
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“And always keep a-hold of nurse/For fear of finding something worse.”
Archive 2007-08-01 Richard 2007
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