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Uber is rolling into 2018 on all flats with a leaky engine and the steering wheel is on fire The question is: who’s buying it?

Although women in the United States armed forces have routinely shown bravery under fire, the question that is now facing the Pentagon is whether female soldiers can perform ground combat tasks day in and day out now that they are allowed to take part in combat duty.

A servant of ours has just drawn a lucifer match, and knowing how careless all negroes are of throwing about fire, the question has been asked her, “Where did you put the match after using it?”

“There was a big fire, the question was how do you contain it?” says Pascal Lamy, World Trade Organization Director- General and a long-time friend and colleague.

It may be of interest, in this connection, to quote a letter which he addressed to his brother-in-law and fellow-Catholic, Lord Merries, who had consulted him as to the propriety of his subscribing to the restoration fund of Selby Abbey, which had been in great part destroyed by fire: The question is one of some delicacy; but its solution is facilitated by the circular which you have sent me, which specifies various objects for which subscriptions are invited.

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

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