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If we write about a future Earth society in which a democratically-elected World President, say, cooks up paperthin justifications for invading an independent Moon, will it have folk out in the street, suddenly awakened to the madness ruling over them?
Why We Write: Describing The World Or Changing It « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009
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Error encountered while building page: type: com. paperthin.common.
Salazar Announces $46.5 Million in Grants�� to States and Territories for Historic Preservation 2009
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A fifty-pound chunk of steel was missing from the reactor, and the only thing holding the coolant in was the stainless cladding, which is paperthin, and which bulged out the hole like bubblegum.
Think Progress » Jonah Goldberg: Concerns About Climate Change Are ‘Millenarian Battiness’ 2006
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~Standing five feet away, from your seashell shaped heart, beating through a paperthin, pale blue linen shirt, unbuttoned like the night.
wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007
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The Swiss chard tastes satisfyingly bitter and when I crunch down on a paperthin slice of apple, it is lifted instantly.
Evening Standard - Home Victoria Stewart 2011
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Cut ginger into paperthin slices, stack them together and cut into really thin slivers.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Cut ginger into paperthin slices, stack them together and cut into really thin slivers.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Cut ginger into paperthin slices, stack them together and cut into really thin slivers.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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One polls gave Clegg a paperthin edge while others put Clegg neck-and-neck with Cameron.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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One polls gave Clegg a paperthin edge while others put Clegg neck-and-neck with Cameron.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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