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"etymology_text": "By analogy with a member of the tribe leaving an Indian reservation.",
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"ref": "1960 January 31, Harry S Truman, “Dear Joe”, in Monte M. Poen, editor, Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed, published 1999, page 137",
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