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* Charlottesville, Virginia: A first use of instant runoff voting in a privately-financed "firehouse primary" that had a record turnout and a shaking-up of the political establishment.
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The whole kashrut industry needs a good shaking-up: will anyone raise the gauntlet?
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It was that shaking-up experience that then led to the Renaissance and led people to reach back into the past as well.
The Creators 1992
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The men were rubbing their bruised shoulders and elbows and discussing their shaking-up in loud voices.
The Trellisane Confrontation David Dvorkin 1990
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The men were rubbing their bruised shoulders and elbows and discussing their shaking-up in loud voices.
The Trellisane Confrontation David Dvorkin 1990
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The men were rubbing their bruised shoulders and elbows and discussing their shaking-up in loud voices.
The Trellisane Confrontation David Dvorkin 1990
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It had a home-like look; but still there was a sense of unreality about everything, and I felt that nothing less than a vigorous "shaking-up," such as Grandfather Smallweed daily experienced, would arouse me thoroughly to the fact that I was in South
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Although my drop was twenty or thirty feet longer than his, on account of the space between us being that much greater, I was none the worse except for a bad shaking-up.
S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant
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Still more shall his wife be taken in hand, and receive what even the late Mr. Smallweed would have considered a thorough "shaking-up"?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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During the shaking-up the chocolate fills every crevice of the mould, and any bubbles, which if left in would spoil the appearance of the chocolate, rise to the top.
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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