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Even up here, surrounded by a friendly population, he never went unarmed, usually with Jerry as bodyguard, an office which gradually passed to me, for Jerry dressed like an out-of-work scare-crow, and didn't fit too well in the Boston hotel's or the halls where J.B. harangued the faithful.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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That vote last week was a ceremonial vote, a "scare-crow" vote, which is why anti-AUMF folks like Levin voted for it.
Hillary Joining Webb For Measure Opposing War With Iran 2009
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Most Dems, including Levin and Durbin, had voted for that resolution mainly for its "scare-crow" value.
Hillary Joining Webb For Measure Opposing War With Iran 2009
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Most Dems, including Levin and Durbin, had voted for that resolution mainly for its "scare-crow" value.
Hillary Joining Webb For Measure Opposing War With Iran 2009
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A friend helped me construct a scare-crow, using some of my old clothes and stuffing them with dried bean-plant residue.
An Alaskan in Tanzania......................And on to Honduras Gail 2008
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'You have done for yourself, now!' said he, exultingly; 'so you may be governed by that scare-crow, Miss Margland, at your leisure.
Camilla 2008
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To summarise, the prevention measures applied by governments are usually little more than a simple scare-crow policy.
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A friend helped me construct a scare-crow, using some of my old clothes and stuffing them with dried bean-plant residue.
Archive 2008-04-01 Gail 2008
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Yet despite his region's temporary scarcity of food, like his metaphorical counterpart, this diminutive scare-crow existed in a world glutted with comestibles that were not meant for him.
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What a scare-crow, indeed, would death be, if we were merely to cast aside the shadow in which we now walk, and, stepping forth into the unclouded sunshine of knowledge and love, revived with the same companions, the same affections, and reached the fulfilment of our hopes, leaving our fears with our earthly vesture in the grave.
The Last Man 2003
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