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  • So, we walked over to the club on 46th St, just west of 8th Ave., and after scoping out the enormous doorman, screwed up our courage and strolled up to him,nodded, and triedto casually walk downthe stairs to the basement cavern that was Steve Paul's Scene.

    Binky Philips: Seeing and Not Seeing Jimi Hendrix Binky Philips 2011

  • Thick or not, George was showered with love by the crowd, which triedto sing “Happy Birthday” to him numerous times.

    George Michael turns L.A.'s Forum arena into Vegas lounge (high notes not included) | EW.com 2008

  • We learn that David triedto infect his former-wife and their children with tuberculosis, and that he succeeded in doing so in the case of a Salvation Army nurse.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • We learn that David triedto infect his former-wife and their children with tuberculosis, and that he succeeded in doing so in the case of a Salvation Army nurse.

    On the trail of The Phantom Carriage 2008

  • Radical Republicans like “BluffBen” Wade, viewing with dismay the servile “Black Codes” which Southern whites imposed on former slaves after the war, triedto force the South to embrace equality.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Radical Republicans like “BluffBen” Wade, viewing with dismay the servile “Black Codes” which Southern whites imposed on former slaves after the war, triedto force the South to embrace equality.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Radical Republicans like “BluffBen” Wade, viewing with dismay the servile “Black Codes” which Southern whites imposed on former slaves after the war, triedto force the South to embrace equality.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Radical Republicans like “BluffBen” Wade, viewing with dismay the servile “Black Codes” which Southern whites imposed on former slaves after the war, triedto force the South to embrace equality.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Radical Republicans like “BluffBen” Wade, viewing with dismay the servile “Black Codes” which Southern whites imposed on former slaves after the war, triedto force the South to embrace equality.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • They said verbal exchanges had taken place outside when security guads triedto prevent a photographer from entering the building, but no-one had been beaten up.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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