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"ref": "1929 November 18, “National Affairs: Vote Castings”, in Time",
"text": "Mourned Candidate La Guardia: \"What a shellacking they gave me!\"",
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"ref": "1929 The Leatherneck, vol. 12 (December, 1929), p. 21",
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"ref": "1944 Frank Marshall Davis, \"Defeats of the Home Front\" (news article, February 23, 1944; reprinted in Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press, University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 126)",
"text": "Unity and democracy are still taking a shellacking here on the home front, despite our successes in the Marshall Islands and in Italy."
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"ref": "2009, Lee Hamilton, Strengthening Congress, page 69",
"text": "After many months of watching its public image take a shellacking as a result of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, Congress finally started to move on lobby reform.",
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"ref": "2010 Peter Baker, \"What Does He Do Now?\", The New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2010",
"text": "[C]learly Obama hopes that just as Clinton recovered from his party's midterm shellacking in 1994 to win re-election two years later, so can he."
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"ref": "2010 Ben Shpigel, \"Charmed Giants Take a Big First Step,\" The New York Times, October 28, 2010",
"text": "Bochy was speaking for the masses, who watched a supposed duel of Cy Young award winners evolve into a full-fledged shellacking."
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"ref": "2010 November 4, Barack Obama, comments at a press conference, after his political party lost control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections",
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"text": "Unity and democracy are still taking a shellacking here on the home front, despite our successes in the Marshall Islands and in Italy."
},
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"ref": "2009, Lee Hamilton, Strengthening Congress, page 69",
"text": "After many months of watching its public image take a shellacking as a result of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, Congress finally started to move on lobby reform.",
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},
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"ref": "2010 Peter Baker, \"What Does He Do Now?\", The New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2010",
"text": "[C]learly Obama hopes that just as Clinton recovered from his party's midterm shellacking in 1994 to win re-election two years later, so can he."
},
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"ref": "2010 Ben Shpigel, \"Charmed Giants Take a Big First Step,\" The New York Times, October 28, 2010",
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},
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"ref": "2010 November 4, Barack Obama, comments at a press conference, after his political party lost control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections",
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