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"Hard-up members would head back to the north of the country four of them in one car, and they might make four claims" on the expense, he said.

School for Scandal 2009

Pentagon Recruits Kids Under 17, Violating UN Protocol yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Pentagon Recruits Kids Under 17, Violating UN Protocol'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Hard-up Pentagon recruiters are actually propagandizing children as young as 13 to join the military, in violation of the Senate\'s 2002 ratification of a UN Protocol banning such conduct.'

Pentagon Recruits Kids Under 17, Violating UN Protocol 2008

Hard-up for topics to blog about, I proposed that the Lamont campaign use a boat graphic for fundraising.

2006 December Archive at spazeboy 2006

Hard-up for topics to blog about, I proposed that the Lamont campaign use a boat graphic for fundraising.

Best Year Ever | spazeboy 2006

Hard-up Matrons asked him for fifty pounds, and got five hundred — generous Meddlechip!

Madame Midas 2003

Hard-up soldiers and ex-servicemen went on a rampage in famine-hit Mozambique, stripping aid vehicles and looting warehouses, national radio reported on Wednesday.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

Hard-up is not the word for my condition at present.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 Various 1876

Hard-up as he had long been for money, the suspicion might arise.

East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter 1864

Like our noble friend, Lord Hard-up, now Earl of Scamperdale, he had worked through the morning of life without knowing what it was to be troubled with money; but, unlike his lordship, now that he had unexpectedly come into some, he seemed bent upon trying how fast he could get through it.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

Hard-up Portugal is girding to learn the cost of its international bailout, with officials and analysts fretting over the potentially ruinous consequences of painful austerity measures.

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