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  • The 105th Congress's impeachment of Bill Clinton was an elitist backlash to pummel an Arkansas poor-boy for dethroning the patriarch of the ruling class.

    Linda Milazzo: Nobody Marched To Impeach Bill Clinton! 2008

  • The 105th Congress's impeachment of Bill Clinton was an elitist backlash to pummel an Arkansas poor-boy for dethroning the patriarch of the ruling class.

    NOBODY MARCHED TO IMPEACH BILL CLINTON! 2007

  • Usually James and I would meet up at Forshay to catch a bus downtown to use our “poor-boy” routine, better known as panhandling.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • Usually James and I would meet up at Forshay to catch a bus downtown to use our “poor-boy” routine, better known as panhandling.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • Usually James and I would meet up at Forshay to catch a bus downtown to use our “poor-boy” routine, better known as panhandling.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • Usually James and I would meet up at Forshay to catch a bus downtown to use our “poor-boy” routine, better known as panhandling.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • With that, Philip Roth is off, spinning an unsparing yet tender tale about a summer affair between poor-boy Neil, from Newark, N.J., and Brenda, a Radcliffe student who is staying with her upper-middle-class family in Short Hills.

    Five Best 2007

  • KEITH: It's just written from a poor-boy, hard-working man's point of view.

    CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2004 2004

  • KEITH: It's just written from a poor-boy, hard-working man's point of view.

    CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2004 2004

  • When I was nine, I appealed to my grandmother in a simple poor-boy letter: my grandmother, the one money bag we all in our particular ways went to, again and again, a source that seemed inexhaustible and at the ready.

    Excerpt: Disobedience by Jane Hamilton 2000

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