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When the photographer who was planning to make the fund-raising calendar asked me to join, he was tip-toeing around the main issue.
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So, of course, there's some testing on animals, the tip-toeing around the notion of testing on humans, and the ka-ching ka-ching eyes in every businessman Bacon comes across.
Books in 2009, #14 pabba 2009
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And even today, I was amazed at reading some of the reports, still how there seems to be some tip-toeing around the phrase that the controversy about it was so intense that even some of that lingers today.
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Not the snow heaving the roof, not her friends tip-toeing out other life.
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These teabaggers and “Conservatives” are tip-toeing on the edge of FRINGE, and I just hope the GOP attempts to meld with the teabaggers … I HOPE they continue this violent rhetoric ….
Think Progress » Rep. Steve King floats secession as possible response to health care reform. 2010
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But this cannot happen so long as Kashmir burns, so Washington is tip-toeing into a new diplomatic mess in the Himalayas.
Eric Margolis: Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War Eric Margolis 2010
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So here is your dialemma: you are tip-toeing through the sticks with your favorite rifle when out pops a hippie clad in ty-die w | Field & Stream
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It was then, tip-toeing alongside Charlie and looking over the rim of the deep crater at filthy little Jelly furiously scraping up dirt with his little garden shovel, that marked the moment when Jon began to love the boy.
Working Title: "Third Persons" Glenn Klopfenstein 2011
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So here is your dialemma: you are tip-toeing through the sticks with your favorite rifle when out pops a hippie clad in ty-die with facial tatoos and body rings.
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You claimed you were gay, and now you are tip-toeing around the argument.
Think Progress » ACLU will sue high school that canceled prom to stop lesbians from attending. 2010
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