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The OSS brass had decided to “pitch-fork out most of the dames,” so Betty, Julia, and Jeanne were all awaiting their travel orders.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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None of the pitch-fork - carrying crowd could say with any real certainty where or how the President would indocrinate our children.
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The OSS brass had decided to “pitch-fork out most of the dames,” so Betty, Julia, and Jeanne were all awaiting their travel orders.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Rowan Williams' reflections on the expenses scandal in today's Times sets out an alternative to the 'pitch-fork and guillotine' approach evident in much populist anger at the widespread abuses.
Parliament, Aristotle and the recovery of virtue Burke's Corner 2009
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Meanwhile the usual pitch-fork battle that wages on the home-front, parallel to any international military deployment, shuffles impotently on.
Cedric Perrier: Afghanistan: Could Britain be Losing its Appetite for War? 2009
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Rowan Williams' reflections on the expenses scandal in today's Times sets out an alternative to the 'pitch-fork and guillotine' approach evident in much populist anger at the widespread abuses.
Archive 2009-05-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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Congress and Americans need to dial-back the pitch-fork rhetoric and give both Washington and Wall Street a chance to fix the problem.
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Meanwhile the usual pitch-fork battle that wages on the home-front, parallel to any international military deployment, shuffles impotently on.
Cedric Perrier: Afghanistan: Could Britain be Losing its Appetite for War? 2009
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As usual, Frank Cross throws a wet blanket of facts over the pitch-fork parade.
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Since I was unable to mow, I decided to do something out there, so I grabbed a pitch-fork and loosened up the soil in one of the two bog patches that between them take up half the surface area of the yard and turn it into an impassible quagmire as soon as a drop of precipitation falls from the sky.
phluid61 Diary Entry phluid61 2006
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