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  • And if you want to know something, you'll all wind up on the copy desk -- hump-backed slobs, dodging garnishees when you're 90.

    Mark Heisler: Confessions of a Dead Tribune Mark Heisler 2011

  • See, I don't want to end up like you guys will, on the copy desk, gray-haired, hump-backed, half blind, bumming cigarettes from office boys.

    Mark Heisler: Confessions of a Dead Tribune Mark Heisler 2011

  • See, I don't want to end up like you guys will, on the copy desk, gray-haired, hump-backed, half blind, bumming cigarettes from office boys.

    Mark Heisler: Confessions of a Dead Tribune Mark Heisler 2011

  • And if you want to know something, you'll all wind up on the copy desk -- hump-backed slobs, dodging garnishees when you're 90.

    Mark Heisler: Confessions of a Dead Tribune Mark Heisler 2011

  • See, I don't want to end up like you guys will, on the copy desk, gray-haired, hump-backed, half blind, bumming cigarettes from office boys.

    Mark Heisler: Confessions of a Dead Tribune Mark Heisler 2011

  • And if you want to know something, you'll all wind up on the copy desk -- hump-backed slobs, dodging garnishees when you're 90.

    Mark Heisler: Confessions of a Dead Tribune Mark Heisler 2011

  • When catcher Joe Greene “dumped a hump-backed line drive”61 into left center, Willard raced around third with the go-ahead run.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

  • When catcher Joe Greene “dumped a hump-backed line drive”61 into left center, Willard raced around third with the go-ahead run.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

  • When catcher Joe Greene “dumped a hump-backed line drive”61 into left center, Willard raced around third with the go-ahead run.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

  • I switched off my phone, unstrapped my watch and padded around the house and garden, stopping to sniff the lemon blossom and take in the view of assorted hump-backed islands.

    Winning the green vote on Filicudi Samantha Weinberg 2010

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