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  • The Dixie Chicks took home a lot of Grammy Awards -- surely to the chagrine of right wingers, particularly creepoids like Sean Hannity, who have encouraged boycotts of their music.

    Printing: Grammys Stick it To The Right, Handing DIxie Chicks Multiple Awards 2007

  • The Dixie Chicks took home a lot of Grammy Awards -- surely to the chagrine of right wingers, particularly creepoids like Sean Hannity, who have encouraged boycotts of their music.

    Grammys Stick it To The Right, Handing DIxie Chicks Multiple Awards 2007

  • The Dixie Chicks took home a lot of Grammy Awards -- surely to the chagrine of right wingers, particularly creepoids like Sean Hannity, who have encouraged boycotts of their music.

    Grammys Stick it To The Right, Handing DIxie Chicks Multiple Awards 2007

  • A week after an investigation into the discovery of 450 unborn children in hospital's morgue was shelved, Jean-Phillipe LeGros, a psychologist who specializes in maternity, angrily said this decision reflects society's denial in the face of the very existence of these children, to the chagrine of the families, to whom we say symbolically 'nothing happened'.

    French Court will decide if driver is responsible for homicide of unborn child Suzanne 2006

  • They were caught by a mortar battery as they deployed and destroyed - much to the chagrine of the Itie command who had overlooked the mortars next turn they smashed them with massed tank fire, but too late.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Cromwell MkI 2006

  • They were caught by a mortar battery as they deployed and destroyed - much to the chagrine of the Itie command who had overlooked the mortars next turn they smashed them with massed tank fire, but too late.

    Camp Cromwell 13/04/06 Cromwell MkI 2006

  • Also, the article the Post ran about 2 weeks ago about the high concentration of felons applying for dispensary licenses, and their chagrine that society and the law still holds their criminal record against them, denying their application.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Also, the article the Post ran about 2 weeks ago about the high concentration of felons applying for dispensary licenses, and their chagrine that society and the law still holds their criminal record against them, denying their application.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Yesterday they defeated my team the Springboks in Johannesburg, to my utmost chagrine!

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • I've been negligent with my camera, much to my own chagrine.

    12 Witnesses 2009

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