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At the time she was living in the Pennine village of Tintwistle, where her father worked in the Wall's sausage factory and her mother was an assistant at the local greengrocer's.
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Dad's repertoire was limited – I can remember mince and chips, beef stew which my brothers called "Dad's gruel" enlivened with a packet of pot herbs from the greengrocer's, but best of all was hot meat pie with gravy.
Family life 2011
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Inside the greengrocer's, the owner, Hussein Muhammad, says he has noticed a difference in people's attitude since the shootings.
Sweden: Malmö's immigrants adjust to life in gunman's sights Lars Eriksen 2010
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Kay points out that that statement runs against nearly anything that the now-defunct Soviet-era Communist regimes really wanted; it is a gesture of the greengrocer's intention to signal conformity and avoid trouble.
Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer Robert Teitelman 2011
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Kay points out that that statement runs against nearly anything that the now-defunct Soviet-era Communist regimes really wanted; it is a gesture of the greengrocer's intention to signal conformity and avoid trouble.
Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer Robert Teitelman 2011
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When they spot someone across the square unloading a minivan in front of the greengrocer's they shout as-salamu alaykum, Arabic for peace be upon you.
Sweden: Malmö's immigrants adjust to life in gunman's sights Lars Eriksen 2010
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The other sleeve contains a good spread of genres over two floors of a late Victorian former greengrocer's store.
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Kay points out that that statement runs against nearly anything that the now-defunct Soviet-era Communist regimes really wanted; it is a gesture of the greengrocer's intention to signal conformity and avoid trouble.
Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer Robert Teitelman 2011
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His father had filled one sketchbook with drawings of fruit and vegetables so painstakingly detailed that at first glance they could be mistaken for black-and-white photographs, almost a greengrocer's catalogue, each specimen on display from various angles — above, below, tilted in all sorts of ways — as well as segmented, peeled, halved, sliced.
Watershed 2010
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It appears that A medical student was stabbed to death ina greengrocer's after a row over the attempted theft of a 20p orange.
Archive 2008-01-01 Not a sheep 2008
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