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Examples
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Well, this explains that Goombah Pizzeria owner's apparent anger management issues: he was a former hit-man who'd served prison time in 2004 after pleading guilty to 2 murders.
Pistol Whipping Pizzeria Owner Was Ex-Mobster In Witness Protection Program - The Consumerist 2009
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Well, this explains that Goombah Pizzeria owner's apparent anger management issues: he was a former hit-man who'd served prison time in 2004 after pleading guilty to 2 murders.
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That's how much money Mike Hodges made for writing and directing Get Carter, the classic 1971 hit-man movie starring Michael Caine, and not a penny more.
Archive 2010-05-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010
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I think that's a Hollywood conceit, of the conflicted hit-man.
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It wasn't that he played the race card against Obama -- although his comparing Obama's South Carolina victory to Jesse Jackson's certainly scuffed the borderline -- it was that the first "black" President had betrayed the community by taking a major hit-man role for his wife.
Please Be Quiet…Bake Cookies…Do Charitable Work…Anything - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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Wild Target seems Bill Nighy playing a hit-man sent to kill Emily Blunt, a con-woman who has just conned a very powerful man, played by Rupert Everett.
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Asma had several children, the youngest of whom was sleeping on her chest when Muhammad's hit-man entered the house.
Josh Shahryar: The Truth About Muhammad and Freedom of Speech 2010
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And I said I'm not going to ... do a guy who kills people, even if he's a conflicted hit-man.
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I heard that he was murdered by the same hit-man that killed Vince Foster.
Inhofe: The Birthers "Have A Point," And "I Don't Discourage It" 2010
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The picture basically takes three classic archetypes the seemingly righteous avenger, the hard-bitten and seen-it-all cop, and the reluctant hit-man who wants to quit and sends them on a collision course with each other, and peeling back the layers to expose all three men as more than they appear.
Scott Mendelson: Huff Post Review: Faster (2010) Scott Mendelson 2010
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