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  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Chris Floyd: Out-Foxing Fox: Times Totes Water for War Crime Spin'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'The destruction planned for Sadr City has been averted, at least for now.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Chris Floyd: Out-Foxing Fox: Times Totes Water for War Crime Spin 2008

  • Eugene Volokh has a post (several, actually) on how Foxing retarded it is for Faux News to use the phrase "Homicide Bombers" rather than "Suicide Bombers" when referring to suicide bombers.

    Archive 2005-07-01 KaneCitizen 2005

  • Liquor may be Brewed in a little Room and in the hottest Weather, without the least Damage by Foxing or other Taint.

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • Quantity of Malt with a little Copper and a few Tubs, a Secret that has long wanted Publication; for now a Person may Brew in a little Room, and that very safely by keeping his Wort from Foxing, as I have already explained, which by many has been thought impossible heretofore; and this

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • The laying Worts thin is a most necessary Precaution; for this is one way to prevent their running into Cohesions and Foxing, the want of which

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • Servants that Name the word _Fox_ or _Foxing_, in the Brewhouse to pay

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • Foxing is a misfortune, or rather a Disease in Malt Drinks, occasioned by divers Means, as the Nastiness of the Utensils, putting the Worts too thick together in the Backs or Cooler, Brewing too often and soon one after another, and sometimes by bad Malts and Waters, and the Liquors taken in wrong Heats, being of such pernicious Consequence to the great

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • You'm foxing [Footnote: _Foxing_ -- Deceiving.] yourself, Joe; you'm listenin 'to the devil an' tellin 'yourself 'tis God -- knawin' 'tedn' so all the while.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Be sure to see the youtube postings of this event where two ex-Marines consider education and "foxing facts" where Fox news once again trys to prevent real news from coming forth but astute and concerned intellect leads the way into greater clarity.

    WN.com - Articles related to CBS scores big with basketball, Woods' return 2010

  • Be sure to see the youtube postings of this event where two ex-Marines consider education and "foxing facts" where Fox news once again trys to prevent real news from coming forth but astute and concerned intellect leads the way into greater clarity.

    WN.com - Articles related to CBS scores big with basketball, Woods' return 2010

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