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And it’s a much more rickety machine than it first appeared.

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But her conceit that the Inter-Con’s trajectory can constitute, as the book’s subtitle asserts, “a people’s history of Afghanistan,” is rickety at best.

The stairs leading to the door are uneven and rickety, feeding into a porch that has six wicker chairs—five upright, and one kicked over.

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Alas, the wagon was a rickety wooden affair.

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The rickety cage creaked slowly up—and stopped between two floors.

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