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“If I had known, I’d have had a heart attack,” he said also, a reference to a point when things went especially upheaved.

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But as other states have led the way in upheaving their systems, Washington has been slow to follow suit.

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A little later, he sees that the disk had disappeared and “in its place was a billow of blood, for so it looked, a vast upheaved billow of glowing blood surging on the horizon.”

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“She can claim credit for upheaving what is perceived as corruption or ethical issues in state politics, the very thing Mike Parson represents as governor.”

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The first time I came to Hammars, I was barely a year old and knew nothing about the great and upheaving love that had brought me there.

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

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