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Not when "the old gun-slinger" is leading your team, apparently.
Thomas Alter: The Never-Ending Saga of Brett Favre Thomas Alter 2010
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Not when "the old gun-slinger" is leading your team, apparently.
Thomas Alter: The Never-Ending Saga of Brett Favre Thomas Alter 2010
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Not when "the old gun-slinger" is leading your team, apparently.
Thomas Alter: The Never-Ending Saga of Brett Favre Thomas Alter 2010
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Suddenly, the old gun-slinger at the centre of the film - played by Eastwood - was broken and traumatized by the sadism he had inflicted in his earlier life.
Johann Hari: If you want to see how America can change, ask Dirty Harry 2009
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Alas, in rendering yourself as a gun-slinger, you neglected to engage the services of "rootin' tootin'" and thereby slighted a worthy adjective, one which already suffers from paucity of circulation, in modern vernacular.
Now it's over 2009
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Doug I used gun-slinger in the slang context, meaning a person who uses quick and aggressive politics to achieve their goals.
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ROBERTS: Remember that first trip of President Bush to Europe, where he was seen as the go it alone gun-slinger and some of the political cartoons of him standing, you know, atop the world with his six guns out and blazing.
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He poses as a maverick, an intellectually macho literary gun-slinger who loves nothing more than provoking the indignant howls of the madding crowd.
Max Blumenthal: The Contrarian Delusion: How Hitchens Poisons Everything 2008
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Perhaps an up coming western requires an seasoned old gun-slinger, or a comic book adaptation needs a charismatic villain, or another John Grisham adaptation requires a deceitful lawyer, senator or judge…God knows he could play them all!
This Weeks Essential Movies for Free T.V Guide | Obsessed With Film 2007
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And it was certainly not a partisan gun-slinger as Robert Novak said in his article or said later in an interview.
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