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"ref": "1962, Clancy Sigal, Going Away: A Report, A Memoir, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 238",
"text": "We were sitting, more or less peaceably, in the frontish rows of the darkened theater when the cops broke in, pouring in from all exits.",
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"ref": "1963, Ken Kelman, “Smith Myth”, in P. Adams Sitney, editor, Film Culture Reader (Praeger Film Books), New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: Praeger Publishers, published 1970, page 284",
"text": "When the first show was over, a clique, a claque of six or so, back on the west side applauded. And I, all alone, east of the aisle up frontish, applauded, amid the numb and blind.",
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"text": "\"Help!\" I'll hear from teachers. \"My children move forward, backward, and turning OK, but I can't get them to go straight sideways. It always looks frontish.\"",
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"ref": "2018, Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, Kill the Farm Boy, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, page 267",
"text": "Garden path or not, she'd found a narrow porch and a door that looked frontish enough.",
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"ref": "2019 May 13, Jim D, “road trip”, in alt.music.makers.soloact (Usenet)",
"text": "We had good center frontish seats and so I could frame the group very well in the camera.",
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