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Words and wetware If table - talk proves sticky , the subject of pronunciation will often get it going , and since it seldom wanders into either the political or the religious sphere , even the sticklers for the non - controversial in ...
Words and wetware If table - talk proves sticky , the subject of pronunciation will often get it going , and since it seldom wanders into either the political or the religious sphere , even the sticklers for the non - controversial in ...
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It will remain a bore so long as it is a talking - shop with no power to overrule the Commission , the Council of ... Pretty good pay , one might think , for mere talk , especially when subsistence , secretarial , office , travel , post ...
It will remain a bore so long as it is a talking - shop with no power to overrule the Commission , the Council of ... Pretty good pay , one might think , for mere talk , especially when subsistence , secretarial , office , travel , post ...
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I clung to my reason with both hands while I watched my poor Ambassador sinking into mental debility , into second childhood , talking baby talk and cooing and caressing Smoke in a way that was terrible to behold .
I clung to my reason with both hands while I watched my poor Ambassador sinking into mental debility , into second childhood , talking baby talk and cooing and caressing Smoke in a way that was terrible to behold .
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