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C. SMITH: Well, we feel that Jack McC.ellan, and other pedophiles like him, are acting as surrogate stalkers for other pedophiles.
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Well, with Rove's apparent permission, Matt C.oper did name names today before a grand jury in D.C. And while President Bush was refusing quote, "To prejudge the leak investigation or to comment on the past White House denials of Rove's involvement," well that left Press Secretary Scott McC.ellan on the hot seat for the third day running.
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He was proud of having P.G. T. Beauregard on his staff, quickly spotted G.orge C. McC.ellan as promising, and mentioned enthusiastically six or seven other young men who would become important generals. '
Mexico Michener, James 1992
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In my brief account I have eschewed the view of Messrs. Nicolay and Hay, who seem to me if I may say it, to have written with the single-minded purpose of throwing everybody's blunders into the scale against McC.ellan, and I have adopted the view of Mr. John C. Ropes in his volume on The Army under Pope, in the C.mpaigns of the C.vil War Series.
Abraham Lincoln Morse, John T 1899
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General John C. Frèmont wins the Republican nomination over William Seward, that November Frèmont defeats Democrat George B. McC.ellan and pledges to finish the work of winning the war and winning the peace.
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_Pennsylvania_, Mrs. McC.ellan Brown, Rachel G. Foster, Emma C. Rhodes.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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I want to talk to a man named Kemper Boyd at the McC.ellan C.mmittee office in Washington, D.C. Tell the operator to try the Senate Office Building, and if you get through, say I'm the caller. "
American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995
chained_bear commented on the word ellan
"OED Nova Francia (1613– ); Euroasiatic moose. A deer erroneously interpreted to be hunted in Newfoundland."
—Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 163
October 17, 2008