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For those who worry that the veins popping out on Stephen Miller’s pencil neck would undermine the diplomatic role of a president, she is presenting herself as calming presence who will make everything okay.

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The narrator watches a slave owner beat and hang a Black man who stole a pencil so that James could write something.

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Also references to knife fights and Democrats showing up with pencils, rubber bands, butter knives and other wimpy implements.

Using the tip of a sharpened pencil, I delicately push the minute hand of the watch around in a circle, though the hour hand is unmovable, permanently pointing at 11 o’clock.

He noted that the combination of satellite constellations, smart grid data, early detection cameras and pre-positioned autonomous resources “just make sense, and the economics pencil out.”

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

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