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America did not turn a hair, any more than it did about the Union Carbide explosion that killed 15,000 Indians in Bhopal in 1984, with only trivial compensation paid.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2010

A philosophical New Dealer and onetime college president, Mr. Horsfall did not turn a hair at the appearance of armed men on the Arkansas landscape.

From Time Magazine Archive

He did not turn a hair when the trucks of equipment arrived from the house on Martin's Hill; he already had room for it in the cellar.

From The Fourth R by Smith, George Oliver

But the Boy was adamant, and I did not turn a hair.

From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

He did not turn a hair; it was merely as though he were listening to some fairy tale.

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence




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