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(Iowa) _Weekly Patriot_, "a disdainful handwave referred this description to Gootes;" some miserable castoff from a fourthrate quickie studio masquerading as a newscameraman; and a party of sheep -- perhaps I could simplify my whole sentence by saying merely a party of bloody sheep -- will be landed by parachute on top of the grass this very afternoon. "
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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