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"ref": "1916, Marie L. McLaughlin, Myths and Legends of the Sioux",
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"ref": "2011 October 6, Boris Johnson, quotee, “Bus conduct”, in The Economist, →ISSN",
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"text": "Mr Johnson is proud that London will soon be free of these buses. Conservative Home, a website, quotes him as saying at a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference on Monday night, that: “The last breeding pair of bendy buses will be despatched this year to the happy hunting ground of some Scandinavian airport.”",
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