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Dale DeRolph, the quiet-spoken hero of the crusade, spoke of discovering his son taking a final history examination cross-legged on the Sheraton High School gymnasium floor, and resolving that while his son found nothing out of the ordinary or wrong in doing so, he, as a father, found it wrong and would seek legal help to do something about it.
Obama vs. Ohio Public Schools Jim Horn 2009
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The British were not so sanguine about Kung, and Cyril Rogers, the quiet-spoken representative of the Bank of England in China, believed he was incompetent.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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The star of the hearing was the conservatively-dressed, quiet-spoken middle-aged guy who sat next to me at the witness table.
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Dale DeRolph, the quiet-spoken hero of the crusade, spoke of discovering his son taking a final history examination cross-legged on the Sheraton High School gymnasium floor, and resolving that while his son found nothing out of the ordinary or wrong in doing so, he, as a father, found it wrong and would seek legal help to do something about it.
Archive 2009-06-01 Jim Horn 2009
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The star of the hearing was the conservatively-dressed, quiet-spoken middle-aged guy who sat next to me at the witness table.
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He's a strategic planner who spends his weekends happily tending to his own garden, and a quiet-spoken man with impeccable manners, who nonetheless didn't flinch from going into battle against Fordham University when it began to construct a 490-foot radio tower close to the perimeter of the Botanical Garden.
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The quiet-spoken, dark-eyed Watson was the seventh winner of the
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They would return to what they did, and the quiet-spoken detective would go back to his work.
Without Pity Ann Rule 2003
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The endodontist 1 was quiet-spoken and murmured everything, was seemingly addicted to classical music, and reminded me of Dr. Chouinard from Hellraiser II.
marathon man redux and the Hanged Man badger 2003
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They would return to what they did, and the quiet-spoken detective would go back to his work.
Without Pity Ann Rule 2003
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