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There’s a reason they’re called throw-backs, Ms. Adams.
Orchid Jayne Castle 1998
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There’s a reason they’re called throw-backs, Ms. Adams.
Orchid Jayne Castle 1998
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What exactly, besides comic entertainment or Roman Games throw-backs, does this firm even offer?
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But in many ways, they are throw-backs to the old feudal regimes that surrounded themselves with compliant lackeys and isolated them from the lives and day-to-day conditions faced by the commoners.
Mike Klonsky: School Reform in the Ownership Society Mike Klonsky 2010
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But in many ways, they are throw-backs to the old feudal regimes that surrounded themselves with compliant lackeys and isolated them from the lives and day-to-day conditions faced by the commoners.
Mike Klonsky: School Reform in the Ownership Society Mike Klonsky 2010
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But in many ways, they are throw-backs to the old feudal regimes that surrounded themselves with compliant lackeys and isolated them from the lives and day-to-day conditions faced by the commoners.
Mike Klonsky: School Reform in the Ownership Society Mike Klonsky 2010
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In a season of throw-backs, you can add this to the list: Just as our grandmothers insisted that girls don't sweat, they "perspire," there remains a narrow range of acceptable behavior for female athletes.
Laura Pappano: Ponytail Pull Was Bad (But Good for Women's Sports) 2009
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What little attention it did pay portrayed the peace movement as unsympathetic throw-backs to the '60s or enemy sympathizers.
Don Lemon & CNN, NO To "Real Americans" - YES To Real Journalism! 2009
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But a lot of throw-backs and a lot of paying homage to the original show.
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What little attention it did pay portrayed the peace movement as irrelevant throw-backs to the '60s or enemy sympathizers.
Linda Milazzo: Don Lemon & CNN: No to "Real Americans," Yes to Real Journalism! 2009
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