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Perhaps this heartless tin-man strolling the yellow brick halls of Congress never considered the impact that such a policy would have on those whose lives are forever changed by events beyond their control.
Karl Frisch: The GOP Is a Disaster When It Comes to Disasters Karl Frisch 2011
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Of circa 1977, 10 years before Willy the Wizard, talking bear and tin-man animated chess game on an era appropriate but defying the laws of physics as we know it mode of transport fame would it?
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010
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Among the other changes in the film, none may be more radical than Gort, Klaatu's robot companion or leader in some versions, that, let's face it, looked like the tin-man in 1951.
Keanu Reeves Brings Different Message With Him In ‘Day The Earth Stood Still’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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Al's tiny team includes only three tin-man avatars of himself, each with too much brain to be president but, unlike his reluctant Number One, probably not enough juice in the ol 'oil can to obscure that fact.
Davis Sweet: Bush Team Says "Yes!" to Being All Puppety 2008
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The tin-man, once more penniless, with an aching head, but with a light heart, returns to his little hammer, and a piece of solder and tin got on the pledge of his future earnings.
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"Is this tin-man to be depended upon?" he asked, when Neale had finished.
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Kalai-wallah is the "tin-man," whose beneficent office it is to avert death by verdigris and salts of copper from you and your family.
Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880
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Eastern part of the Union, where a travelling tin-man dare hardly show himself, - and yet is held up in the South as the real New-England character, and this by certain white people who know the use of letters!
John B. Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey John Bound 1833
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Scarecrows burning, tin-man rusting, little people asking why
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David X. Cohen with some guy - I dunno, I think it's the tin-man from Wizard of OZ or something.
IGN DVD 2009
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