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He had amended and improved the new Graham clock, called the 'dead scapement,' or 'dead-beat escapement' (the origin of our modern word _dead-beat_, signifying a man who does not meet his engagements, whereas the original

Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

Well it looks like CNN has grown tired of Meghan "Air-head" McCain and its new darling is the worthless dead-beat dad from Alaska.

Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else' 2009

By the way, any comments on your dead-beat tendencies or how's that "Contract With America" coming along?

Gingrich praises Obama's speech 2009

I will raise their taxes, and add to the costs and diminish the quality of their medical services, just like it will for the rest of us, all to give a bunch of dead-beat losers "free" health care they've neither earned nor deserve.

How will the health care bill affect seniors? 2009

Women also have the responsibility to use their heads and avoid relationships with dead-beat men.

BREAKING: Abortion amendment defeated in the Senate 2009

I'm not a dead-beat – am current with all my bills and have a credit rating of 710.

Health care proposals need more work, health secretary says 2009

I was walking along Broadway in San Diego, going to court to file some papers against an ex-tenant dead-beat.

Heroes or Villains? 2010

Can left and right not join together to propose tough legislation punishing dead-beat dads who embrace the evolutionary model of man as inseminator?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Why Values-Voters Have Completely Failed Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

President Obama is not exploiting his children and he certainly isn't a dead-beat dad, he spends a good deal of his time and energy trying to solve this country's problems and work on foreign problems also, I do believe that there should be a day of rest to enjoy your family for someone who works as hard as he does.

Obama and daughters visit frozen custard shop 2009

Who would pay their mortgages, feed their children, send them to school, clothe them, help them with their homework, and raise them, while their mothers would be away at "pregnancy camp," especially if Dad is already a dead-beat?

Nancy Cronk: Ken Buck: Too Risky for Colorado Nancy Cronk 2010