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The Flypaper War choose

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[US] R. Starnes Flypaper War 154: ‘What these babies can do with edged tools is beyond belief’.
at baby, n.
[US] R. Starnes Flypaper War 2: [T]he good chap had gotten an attack of American middle-class rectitude and gone home to wife and snotlings, leaving poor Mary on the beach.
at on the beach under beach, n.
[US] R. Starnes Flypaper War 79: ‘[A]ll the oil companies on earth are in bed with each other’.
at in bed with (adj.) under bed, n.
[US] R. Starnes Flypaper War 79: ‘A chinless little Netherlander is his appointments clerk, chamberlain, chief procurer [...] Name of Van Ronk. The oil company owns Van Ronk’.
at own, v.
[US] R. Starnes Flypaper War 44: ‘It’s never a pink tea. A man has to be tough’.
at pinktea, n.
[US] R. Starnes Flypaper War 198: Qyran is going to hell in a handbasket [...] this pissant country is corrupt, rotten, starving.
at pissant, adj.
[US] R. Starnes Flypaper War 131: ‘Is Rijal a Marxist? Or is that just a convenient bogeyman [...] to scare a lot of yahoo congressmen?’.
at yahoo, n.1
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