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The Lubyanka—head-quarters of the KGB—also had a voracious appetite for written reports.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The Lubyanka—head-quarters of the KGB—also had a voracious appetite for written reports.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The Lubyanka—head-quarters of the KGB—also had a voracious appetite for written reports.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The Lubyanka—head-quarters of the KGB—also had a voracious appetite for written reports.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The nearest township - where I'd encountered Ignatieff - was an important army head-quarters, a sort of staging post for the Crimea, but as there was no decent accommodation in the place, the more important wayfarers were in the habit of putting up with Pencherjevsky.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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Who described Washington, D.C., as "the head-quarters of tobacco-tinctured saliva"?
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He could dig trenches for all I cared; I was already measuring the remaining distance across the plain west-ward; once in the gullies I'd be out of harm's way, and could pick my way to Raglan's head-quarters at my leisure.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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I didn't want to leave 'em - but there were the Highlanders drawn up near the crest across the plain southward: I must just deliver my message as quickly as might be, and then be off back to head-quarters.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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Being provided of more of the same kind, I made myselfe reddie, and rode to the head-quarters.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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He established his head-quarters at Dunbarton, where he was soon joined by a considerable force, consisting chiefly of his own clansmen and dependants.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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