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Obama even flashed the Vulcan hand sign -- not so easy to do the first few times you try -- at Nimoy at an Obama fundraiser in, for those of you who were johnnies-come-lately, January 2007.
William Bradley: Star Trek's New Coming-of-Age Saga for Generation O 2009
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Weak sisters, johnnies-come-lately, and camp followers got shaken out.
unknown title 2011
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Obama even flashed the Vulcan hand sign -- not so easy to do the first few times you try -- at Nimoy at an Obama fundraiser in, for those of you who were johnnies-come-lately, January
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Obama even flashed the Vulcan hand sign -- not so easy to do the first few times you try -- at Nimoy at an Obama fundraiser in, for those of you who were johnnies-come-lately, January
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Obama even flashed the Vulcan hand sign -- not so easy to do the first few times you try -- at Nimoy at an Obama fundraiser in, for those of you who were johnnies-come-lately, January
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Obama even flashed the Vulcan hand sign -- not so easy to do the first few times you try -- at Nimoy at an Obama fundraiser in, for those of you who were johnnies-come-lately, January
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Because the company’s mechanics were johnnies-come-lately to the trade, Hounshell discovered; they weren’t steeped in the metal-working traditions of the New England armories.
Economic Principals David Warsh 1993
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