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  • He was merely a man-handler, and Bill King was something like three months in recovering from the bit of man-handling he received that afternoon on Apia beach.

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • Graduates of the hardest of man-handling schools, veterans of multitudes of rough-and-tumble battles, men of blood and sweat and endurance, they nevertheless lacked one thing that Daylight possessed in high degree -- namely, an almost perfect brain and muscular coordination.

    Chapter III 2010

  • Drexler, who joined the team late in the 2nd title run, was well past his prime, completely man-handling every other great center in the league - Mutombo, Shaq, Ewing, and David Robinson twice.

    Mike Lux: The Most Valuable of All Mike Lux 2011

  • Only Michael Jordan could get away with man-handling a former president in public, “Please Michael, not the headlock today …”

    Beat 360° 10/7/09 2009

  • And when I look at the tremendous build of him and at his fearful, man-handling hands, I conjure up a vision of him avenging Captain

    CHAPTER XXV 2010

  • Drexler, who joined the team late in the 2nd title run, was well past his prime, completely man-handling every other great center in the league - Mutombo, Shaq, Ewing, and David Robinson twice.

    Mike Lux: The Most Valuable of All Mike Lux 2011

  • What was really my undoing was my use of a food processor and my subsequent man-handling of the dough.

    Memorial Day Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Katherine Wheelock 2011

  • Then counterterrorism experts can focus their energy on forecasting events rather than man-handling computers.

    Too Much Information Shane Harris 2010

  • The real unforced error is having a group of pot-bellied, good-ole-boy sheriffs man-handling citizens who are active in the process:

    Joe The Nerd Ferraro: Eric Cantor Implosion Joe The Nerd Ferraro 2010

  • Talking points • In other non "best or worst ever starts" news, one Scottish streaker was visibly not satisfied with Frankfurt's 4-0 rout of Gladbach and started, ahem, man-handling himself on the pitch.

    Hoffenheim and Mainz surge on as records and Michael Ballack tumble 2010

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