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"text": "The traditional medical establishment, led by the conservative American Medical Association (AMA), has long engaged the chiropractic community in what has been reported (by many disgruntled Chiropractors) as a \"heavily funded,\" \"deathlock-type of struggle\" focused on \"government lobbies, legal actions and media manipulations\" to attempt to discredit and disavow chiropractic legitimacy.",
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"text": "Elmer Blaney Harris eloquently captures the feel of the Bowery in 1906: Bands, orchestras, pianos, at war with gramophones, hand-organs, calliopes; overhead, a roar of wheels in a deathlock with shrieks and screams; whistles, gongs, rifles all busy, the smell of candy, popcorn, meats, beer, tobacco, blended with the odor of the crowd redolent now and ten of patchouli; a streaming river of people arched over by electric signs -- this is the Bowery at Coney Island.",
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"text": "But just now, Howard was seriously considering relaxing his deathlock on the leadership.",
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},
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"ref": "1993, Gordon Barlow Dodds, Varieties of hope: an anthology of Oregon prose, page 253:",
"text": "In our time a great struggle, which may very well be a deathlock struggle, is going on in the world between freedom on the one hand and the totalitarianism of communism on the other.",
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"text": "The traditional medical establishment, led by the conservative American Medical Association (AMA), has long engaged the chiropractic community in what has been reported (by many disgruntled Chiropractors) as a \"heavily funded,\" \"deathlock-type of struggle\" focused on \"government lobbies, legal actions and media manipulations\" to attempt to discredit and disavow chiropractic legitimacy.",
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"text": "The animal fell backward, its talons in a deathlock on the sill of the empty window frame.",
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"text": "Elmer Blaney Harris eloquently captures the feel of the Bowery in 1906: Bands, orchestras, pianos, at war with gramophones, hand-organs, calliopes; overhead, a roar of wheels in a deathlock with shrieks and screams; whistles, gongs, rifles all busy, the smell of candy, popcorn, meats, beer, tobacco, blended with the odor of the crowd redolent now and ten of patchouli; a streaming river of people arched over by electric signs -- this is the Bowery at Coney Island.",
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"text": "But just now, Howard was seriously considering relaxing his deathlock on the leadership.",
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"text": "But even as we troubled souls feel the deathlock of disagreements profound and if we can avoid sheer cynicism, it seems almost impossible to retain clarity about fundamental principles and diagnostic politics.",
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