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  • And the backwards-cap wearing, sport-loving, no-nothing individual voter is the biggest loser of them all.

    Poll names Pelosi, congressional Republicans 'losers' 2009

  • It's one of the stupidest ideas ever inflicted on professional sports and the sport-loving public, an incomprehensible mash of points-earning and points resetting and players weary from an already overlong golf season.

    Matthew DeBord: Pro Golf's Young Guns Are Shooting Blanks 2009

  • Bi-racial, right-handed, TV-watching, sport-loving, slightly eccentric americans whose passports have been renewed at least once in the last ten years?

    Poll: Obama Ties McCain Among Less-Educated Voters 2009

  • One psychiatrist, Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, dismissed psychoanalysis as a treatment option for shell shock by stating that it was probably applicable to people on the Austrian and German frontiers, but not to virile, sport-loving, open-air people like the British!

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • One psychiatrist, Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, dismissed psychoanalysis as a treatment option for shell shock by stating that it was probably applicable to people on the Austrian and German frontiers, but not to virile, sport-loving, open-air people like the British!

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • One psychiatrist, Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, dismissed psychoanalysis as a treatment option for shell shock by stating that it was probably applicable to people on the Austrian and German frontiers, but not to virile, sport-loving, open-air people like the British!

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • All these uses have now reached the point where they would be bound to arouse alarm even in a meat-eating, sport-loving person who was hoping for a particular medicine or organ graft that required extensive laboratory testing.

    Political Animals 2002

  • All these uses have now reached the point where they would be bound to arouse alarm even in a meat-eating, sport-loving person who was hoping for a particular medicine or organ graft that required extensive laboratory testing.

    Political Animals 2002

  • Tom, the sport-loving black boy, being on the scene, his flattie was soon afloat, and with a disdainful thrust of the harpoon he impaled the creature, which did not exhibit the least sign of life.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • My necklace and arm-rings were not grave jewels of a kingly house, but the costly gauds of the Bull Court, the gift of sport-loving lords and man-loving ladies to a bull-boy who will go in with the music and fly up with the horns.

    The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

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