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This week two senior leaders of the British broadcaster stepped down over the actions described above and a question naturally occurs: Isn’t this pattern getting awfully old?

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime,” Jake writes, “but at night it is another thing.”

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Mayor Johnson says the business community is being “awfully unreasonable” in its opposition to the tax and that it should “do some real soul-searching.”

“If this monster has never eaten anything at all, she must be awfully hungry by now!” said a cow named Tess.

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Somehow, the tourists need to buck their trend of starting Ashes tours awfully and get out of the opening two on level terms at worst.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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