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“He went out to the barn lot and dug him a deep hole down in that damp ground under the watering trough. About every ten minutes he crawls out of his hole, rears up on the trough, and drinks water. Every time I go out there to see about him, he growls and shows his teeth. I can’t get close to him.”
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“Did you have that nurse’s uniform on when you went out to see about him?”
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“I’m going down in the bottoms and see about the monkeys,” I said.
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As you can see, about two-thirds of the group reported beating the market with returns ranging between a big loss and a maximum of 15%.
In “suspended ashdust like firesmoke,” Buzz described, they could now see about 150 feet in front of them.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.