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Okay I get it … America loves Karaoke as much as Japan, but how many of these “Idols” even make it past two albums … their break-out then their down-fall.
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The weight of the down-fall of that father of waves, even then imminent above their heads, could stun a man or break the fragile bones of a woman.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Not that the score or more of young surf-riders loafing on the beach could not venture there, or were afraid to venture there; but because their biggest outrigger canoes would have been swamped, and their surf-boards would have been overwhelmed in the too-immense over-topple and down-fall of the thundering monsters.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Yes it was the graduated income tax law which passed in 1913, which really started this country on the down-fall to socialism.
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I pray that in "their" process of trying to destroy the President of the United States and "make sure he fails", that they don't in turn bring about the down-fall of our society by dividing our nation as they are doing.
After standoff, Senate votes to extend jobless benefits 2010
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Barack Obama has the right views to up-lift this country from all its past down-fall and is thinking about the middle-class.
Why you support Barack Obama | Barack Obama | positively Barack 2008
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Their relationship is interlocked and connected with one another, where the sense of "nationalism, patriotism, racism, and also fanaticism" are the primary causes and effects that fully described the glory of Cambodia's past as well as her subsequent down-fall.
Cambodia: Nationalism, Patriotism, Racism, and Fanaticism 2008
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Barack Obama has the right views to up-lift this country from all its past down-fall and is thinking about the middle-class.
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I believe if Facebook and Myspace began rewarding its users with cash we would see the down-fall of these services.
Facebook Does Ad Deal, But Not With Google Michael Arrington 2005
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In a world so often governed by self-interest, being in the company of a man like Scot Harvath made Meg realize what a noble life worth living was really about, but she also realized that the quality she most admired in him might also turn out to one day be his down-fall.
State of the Union Brad Thor 2004
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