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Maynard, a 60-something RNC "Young Gun" and a recently announced Palin-ite, is not currently expected to unseat Rahall, though Rahall's standing as a 17-term congressman may end up hurting him in the current anti-incumbent climate.
Spike Maynard, GOP House Candidate, Drops Racially Tinged Ad Accusing Opponent Of Propping Up Chinese Jobs The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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So the foreign policy genius that can’t tell the difference between a Sunni and a Shi’ite is going to make things better in the Middle East, eh?
Is McCain About to ‘Refine’ His Withdrawal Plan, Too? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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He observed, "Words that were alien then -- 'jihad,' 'Wahhabi,' 'Sunni,' 'Shi'ite' - are now part of every reporter's vocabulary."
Interview with Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren (Part 2) Jennifer Rubin 2010
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When I browsed to the ".ite" file and viewed the package contents, I found Dug's Special Mission buried in the video clips.
'George & A.J.' [UPDATE] Mike 2009
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One syllable, add an "ite", it riffed off "anti-dentite" and there you go.
The Olympics: "weirdly unsexy." Ann Althouse 2008
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Pushing people back who were attempting to leave Basra, asking them to stay in Basra, hoping there that there would be a peaceful entry into the city; this is Basra in the south as a largely Shi'ite city and the Shi'ite's have suffered under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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But I 'ite' er, 'cos she's so bad, an' 'cos she mikes the other children bad.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 Various
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Don't touch 'im or you goin' spin lak 'top an' mebbe you go over W'ite 'Orse sideways.
The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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Right hit did, sir; strite hat me, sir; hand with long w'ite 'ands it clawed for me.
Out of Time's Abyss Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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Ef I goes ter de Norf an 'marry a w'ite 'oman, I ain't commit no brigamy,' caze in dat sense er de word she ain't my wife; but ef I takes dis money, I ain't stealin 'it,
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays 1895
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