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Fourth, FARC topdog Manuel Marulanda is reported to be gravely ill and under medical care somewhere in Venezuela.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The right is the party of pride, or sympathy for the topdog.
Matthew Yglesias » Men are From Mars, Women Are From Sweden 2007
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In every case, the left party favors the underdog, and the right party favors the topdog.
Matthew Yglesias » Men are From Mars, Women Are From Sweden 2007
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Fourth, FARC topdog Manuel Marulanda is reported to be gravely ill and under medical care somewhere in Venezuela.
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For the first time in threequarters of a century the farmer was topdog; his eggs and milk, his wheat and corn and potatoes he could exchange for whatever he fancied and on his own terms.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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Did I miss them or were they left out to make the 5970 topdog?
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The Maoist surge that's making the rest of India or India (depending on your reading of Theodor Adorno, Munshi Premchand and today's newspaper headlines) wet its pants in a potent mixture of fear and outrage, is being seen as a battle-to-the-death between dogged topdog and rabid underdog over a bone that till yesterday didn't interest the former: 76 soldiers taken out by some 2,000 renegades.
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Did I miss them or were they left out to make the 5970 topdog?
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Look for Bush to resign soon after the election and give Cheney some topdog experience, just to throw shit in the face of Dems.
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Naturally you need to give a shit about the game of cricket to be interested; however, if you're slightly interested in the bottomdog beating the, er, topdog you might appreciate my joy at this time.
Beating Australia. In Australia. And Making Them Cheat. RICHARD 2009
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