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When President Cleveland sent troops to break up a railroad strike and tamp down mob violence against Chinese immigrants, he invoked the Insurrection Act.
“Are you trying to break up with me?”
When the group broke up around 1996, Armisen took on gigs as a background drummer for the Blue Man Group and even formed a salsa band.
On its ensuing drive Mary Star marched to Palisades’ 20, but Carter broke up a pass in the flat on fourth and 10 with 12 seconds left to seal the win.
"There is constant pressure from Russia," he told me, as the pro-PAS crowd broke up after its brief march through Chisinau.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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