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It's a pretty hard thing to prove, you'd be eating out of a garbage-can if it wasn't for the stimulas. or you'd be in the throws of world war three with the republicans in power.
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Because a direct fire cooks the food more quickly than molten coals can, and because the ingredients are contained, the garbage-can method is speedier and more manageable than the traditional one.
Happy as a Clambake Gail Monaghan 2011
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We scooped up handfuls of pecans, Arthur mounted a garbage-can lid on his arm, and we charged the enemy across the street, slamming one pecan after another into their bodies.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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It ' s more like Don Draper vs. an unhinged fellow on the sidewalk angrily waving a garbage-can lid and wearing a banana peel for a hat.
The NFL Jason Gay 2010
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Now, love addiction is this -- you know, it ` s kind of this garbage-can term, but it carries some weight.
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"Stomp" recorded a one-minute routine with letters spelling out "C'mon LeBron" fastened to the undersides of garbage-can lids.
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He heard his garbage-can lid rattle on the driveway, blown by the wind or pulled loose from the bungee cord by an animal.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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Jimmy and Will had been sent up as part of the reinforcements, bottles and bricks and garbage-can lids raining down on them, looters helping themselves to food and radios and even weapons from the neighborhood stores.
The Lovers John Connolly 2009
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He heard his garbage-can lid rattle on the driveway, blown by the wind or pulled loose from the bungee cord by an animal.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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I'm counting the minutes until these sleazy, crooked, menadcious know-nothings are consigned to their rightful place, the garbage-can of history.
TPM Track Composite: Obama's Big Lead Inches Up Yet Again 2009
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