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If five events are scheduled over several days, that leaves a lot of thumb-twiddling time.
For authors on book tour, one event per city or many? « The Book Publicity Blog 2009
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If five events are scheduled over several days, that leaves a lot of thumb-twiddling time.
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Still, that's not the real problem, or the strongest argument against thumb-twiddling.
Thumb-twiddling on Social Security isn't an option Ruth Marcus 2011
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Never one to sit idly thumb-twiddling he's been quite busy on other projects through the winter.
The Tinker on Tour 2008
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Never one to sit idly thumb-twiddling he's been quite busy on other projects through the winter.
The Tinker on Tour 2008
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She nodded, I nodded, and then we were back to sitting in thumb-twiddling silence.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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She nodded, I nodded, and then we were back to sitting in thumb-twiddling silence.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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A vacancy there matters, and the vacancy created by the Senate's thumb-twiddling on Cole was unprecedented in length in the modern Justice Department.
Obama's recess appointment that makes sense Ruth Marcus 2010
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She nodded, I nodded, and then we were back to sitting in thumb-twiddling silence.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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Never one to sit idly thumb-twiddling he's been quite busy on other projects through the winter.
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