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In one of the neighborhoods I lived in there was a classic corner candy store, one that had a long formica counter flanked by revolving red-topped stools; behind the counter was perched a sea-green malted mixer, a bleacher stacked with Neccos, Chuckles, B-B Bats and Yoo-Hoos, a large tarnished griddle upon which hamburger patties and home fries hissed and popped, and the whole space seemingly lit in sepia.
Steven Weber: In a Sense, Abroad Part Trois: I's Real, Oy! Steven Weber 2011
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In one of the neighborhoods I lived in there was a classic corner candy store, one that had a long formica counter flanked by revolving red-topped stools; behind the counter was perched a sea-green malted mixer, a bleacher stacked with Neccos, Chuckles, B-B Bats and Yoo-Hoos, a large tarnished griddle upon which hamburger patties and home fries hissed and popped, and the whole space seemingly lit in sepia.
Steven Weber: In a Sense, Abroad Part Trois: I's Real, Oy! Steven Weber 2011
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They, the barons of the media with their red-topped assassins, are the biggest beasts in the modern jungle.
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Meanwhile, flocks of red-topped, blue-bottomed young women on the day shift filled the road, riding their bikes in.
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Meanwhile, flocks of red-topped, blue-bottomed young women on the day shift filled the road, riding their bikes in.
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He has in fact run his press department and indeed in my view the government very much like the roughest red-topped tabloid newspaper since the moment he walked into Downing Street and obtained the special powers which he had until he resigned.
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He has in fact run his press department and indeed in my view the government very much like the roughest red-topped tabloid newspaper since the moment he walked into Downing Street and obtained the special powers which he had until he resigned.
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But the map on the wall that had recorded the progress of the war had stopped at Gallipoli, where a last red-topped pin signed Suvla Bay.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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But the map on the wall that had recorded the progress of the war had stopped at Gallipoli, where a last red-topped pin signed Suvla Bay.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Then a red-topped, 6-5, 250-pound distraction moved toward him.
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