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The Case Against Satan choose

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[US] R. Russell Case against Satan 71: ‘I’m going to [...] question her if I have to take the whole bunch of you down to the station and lock you in the bullpen’.
at bullpen, n.
[US] R. Russell Case against Satan 12: ‘I could see Father Halloran was here. I didn’t want to bust in, so I thought we’d wait until he left’.
at bust in (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] R. Russell Case against Satan 71: ‘[T]hey’re [i.e. clergymen] so damned clever at covering their tracks that I can’t pin a thing on them. They fox me, every time’.
at fox, v.1
[US] R. Russell Case against Satan 24: ‘They don’t pull that sort of stuff now.’ ‘Of course they don’t. They’re more subtle now, more foxy’.
at foxy, adj.1
[US] R. Russell Case against Satan 57: ‘[S]entimentality, trumped-up feelings, the thing that in actors is called ham. Ham; schmaltz; corn’.
at ham, n.2
[US] R. Russell Case against Satan 23: ‘I don’t swallow everything the Church hands out, I got a mind of my own, but you can’t say the Church is like Communism!’.
at hand out, v.
[US] R. Russell Case against Satan 25: ‘[Y]our little girl [...] has to be hammered into shape. By fair means or foul. Most likely foul. Because, Garth: these priests play dirty’.
at play dirty (v.) under play, v.
[US] R. Russell Case against Satan 23: Garth made a movement of scorn. ‘Come on now, Talbot, that’s [i.e. a criticism of the Catholic church] pushing it kind of far, isn’t it?
at push it (v.) under push, v.
[US] R. Russell Case against Satan 71: ‘Shop talk. Checking out some stuff for an article he’s working up’.
at work up (v.) under work, v.
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