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Freaking out merely plays into the hands of obstructionists and reactionaries, along with the media, whose only interest is in ginning up a fight.

Think Progress » Brown wins Massachusetts special election; Coakley concedes. 2010

That and the whitewash report of their involvement in ginning up the casus belli?

Matthew Yglesias » Ombudsmanfail 2010

Anyone who's curious about the Washington Post's involvement in ginning up resentment over tribal contracting might recall that the cash-strapped newspaper is not shy about playing footsie with power brokers.

Stephanie Woodard: The New Indian Fighters: Lt. Col. McCaskill and Major WaPo Stephanie Woodard 2010

Anyone who's curious about the Washington Post's involvement in ginning up resentment over tribal contracting might recall that the cash-strapped newspaper is not shy about playing footsie with power brokers.

Stephanie Woodard: The New Indian Fighters: Lt. Col. McCaskill and Major WaPo Stephanie Woodard 2010

Through it all, White House officials rolled their eyes and insisted it was meaningless chatter generated by reporters with a vested interest in ginning up drama.

A Clinton-Biden swap 'on the table'? Absolutely not, says Axelrod. Anne E. Kornblut 2010

And the fact that he openly courted the left in ginning up anti-war sentiment against President Bush, based on a tissue of lies and exaggerations, is even more telling.

Think Progress » “Left-Wing Radical”: Hannity Kicks Off Next Wilson Smear Campaign 2005

I think we're -- I mean giving (INAUDIBLE) to Sarah Palin and her kind of ginning this up, I mean, she's clearly trying to, you know, kind of play for a larger stage here, I mean.

CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2009 2009

Some nights after he and the other slaves had left the field they were required to do extra work such as ginning cotton and shelling peas and corn, etc.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Mississippi river, an hundred able-bodied negroes hoeing cotton in his fields, with fifty more picking it from the pod, and "ginning" the staple clear of seed; to-day, he is but their owner in seeming, Ephraim

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850

So likewise each notable advance in the machinery for the main processes has had the effect of bringing an increase of inventive energy to bear upon the minor and the subsidiary processes -- bleaching, dyeing, printing, etc. Even now the early process of "ginning" has not been brought fully into line in spite of the prodigious efforts, made especially in the United States, to overcome the difficulties involved in this preparatory stage of the cotton industry.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899