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  • In a series of pintsized, 2D levels, you lay waste to aliens while collecting piles of gold and avoiding return fire, while using your force field both for defence and as a way of bouncing to otherwise inaccessible places.

    This week's new games Nick Gillett 2010

  • I confused myself thinking of another one where Bugs was kidnapped by that pintsized little gangster named Rocky, and they ended up at the hideout and Bugs made like he was the police, and…

    Black and White World: Picture Snatcher – The Bleat. 2009

  • We see, for instance, a 1952 trade journal ad featuring a picture (as the ad text puts it) of "pert, pintsized, red-headed Virginia Gibson, singing and dancing Warner Bros. star and Queen of the Second Annual Conference and Exposition of the Produce Prepackaging Association in Columbus, Ohio."

    Well-Traveled and Unspoiled 2009

  • Last week, NBC-TV reported on the trend toward ever-sexier Halloween costumes for young girls, which has produced pintsized hordes of hooker-esque six-year-olds wearing the kind of titillating French maid get-ups that have long been a staple of pornography.

    Welcome to the White House, Mrs. Obama!: Leslie Bennetts Bennetts, Leslie 2008

  • Well, it’s perfectly competent pop-rap, raised a few notches by a powerful vocal performance from the pintsized jailbird.

    Sheryl Crow Adopts A Son; Presumed To Be Biodegradable 2006

  • The company had been selling Resistol in two ways: in industrial-sized, 55-gallon drums, and in smaller, “over-the-counter” quart- and pintsized containers.

    Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994

  • The company had been selling Resistol in two ways: in industrial-sized, 55-gallon drums, and in smaller, “over-the-counter” quart- and pintsized containers.

    Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994

  • “Take off your shoes and stand there,” ordered the nurse, pintsized but authoritative.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

  • “Take off your shoes and stand there,” ordered the nurse, pintsized but authoritative.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

  • “Take off your shoes and stand there,” ordered the nurse, pintsized but authoritative.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

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