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Spectator magazine who wrote in 1935 that Turks thought drowning kitten litters was cruel, so they dropped them in the "dustheap" instead.
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The Republicans are headed for the dustheap of history so long as they persist in being the party of the ignorant folks and bigots.
Blackwell: I Could Restrain Homosexual Urges -- If I Had Any, Which I Don't 2009
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Or, did they pull the plug well before they could film the resolution to the mystery, so they will just be forced to cancel it, leaving this series in the "Now and Again" and "Cupid" dustheap?
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The phone calls were fewer, the visits were fewer; the friendship, all told, was left to languish in the dustheap of obligations from my previous, childless life.
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Tomorrow, let's consign her to the dustheap of history forever.
Palin On Democrats: "Do They Think The Terrorists ... Are The Good Guys?" 2009
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Unless its leadership is willing to embrace new ideas and new members, the once Grand Old Party will be relegated to the dustheap of history, like the Whigs, Federalists and other once-major parties that refused to face reality and change, and rapidly moved from dominance to extinction. '
Who Is John McCain, and What Is He Doing to the Republican Party? 2008
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We can't come to terms with why the US is in the pickle it is in without consigning McCain to the dustheap.
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Still if it were not written rather faster than the fastest type-writing, if I stopped and took thought, it would never be written at all; and the advantage of the method is that it sweeps up accidentally several stray matters which I should exclude if I hesitated, but which are the diamonds of the dustheap.
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I know its sounds prudent to cut everything but the logic stops there - how many businesses will go bust? throwing workers on a dustheap from which many will never return - killing off entrepreneurs who we need to make jobs and further decimating what little industry we are left with.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Unless its leadership is willing to embrace new ideas and new members, the once Grand Old Party will be relegated to the dustheap of history, like the Whigs, Federalists and other once-major parties that refused to face reality and change, and rapidly moved from dominance to extinction.
Who Is John McCain, and What Is He Doing to the Republican Party? 2008
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