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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
pagan .
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Woody Guthrie also wrote a paen to the brave men who died in the undeclared naval war in the Atlantic 5 weeks before Pearl Harbor.
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Actual lyrics:Imagine eating pizza, each and every dayYou may say that it is junk foodbut to me it's old fashioned chowIt gives my life its meaningand it makes a lot of doughIn his introduction, Cain give a mock-ironic paen to American freedoms, before donning white priestly robes and launching into the familiar tune of Imagine.
US politics live blog: fundraising totals, Herman Cain's gaffes 2011
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Here's a paen to Durant from Bill Simmons (hat tip to Tyler Cowen, the LeBron James of bloggers).
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Moomin remains a wistful paen to the joys of relazing and enjoying life and the importance of play.
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The paen to South American unity became hard political fact when Argentina, Brazil and Chile, among others, agreed in December to start blocking Falklands-flagged ships from entering their ports.
Cristina Kirchner: she's not just another Evita | profile 2012
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I am reminded of the Rolling Stones 'paen to drugs "Mother's Little Helper" ...
Tweak (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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Elsewhere, Amanda Shaw notes these lines from Edna St. Vincent Millay as a paen to the new Age of Google.
November 25th, 2008 m_francis 2008
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Woody Guthrie also wrote a paen to the brave men who died in the undeclared naval war in the Atlantic 5 weeks before Pearl Harbor.
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If I ever get to come home, we're going into the old 'RNO building in Metairie, and I'll show you the ancient paen to Mister Bubbles, the original owner (a 420-lb. pasty-white pedophile), Joesph Costello.
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Mary Hemingway clearly didn't "insert" that final chapter the Times reporter called "... a wistful paen to Hadley ..." that Sean is so eager to drop part of into an "appendix."
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