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"ref": "1988, David Parker, Building on Sand, North Ryde, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, →ISBN, page 8:",
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"ref": "1992, Gijs Van Hensbergen, chapter 6, in A Taste of Castile, London: Sinclair-Stevenson, →ISBN, page 104:",
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"ref": "1993, Judith A. Olin, “Seed Thoughts: Mark 4:26-34”, in John K. Bergland, compiler, Abingdon Preacher’s Annual 1994, Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 185:",
"text": "Jubilee Gardens feeds urban dwellers on the east side of the city. Volunteers cleared the vacant lot of broken bricks, shattered glass, and paper trash. They plowed under the hardcrusted earth, enriched the soil, and divided it into sections. Today, interested families may claim a small garden plot and produce fresh vegetables all summer long.",
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"ref": "1999, Steven Millhauser, “The Moon and the Mannequin”, in Enchanted Night: A Novella, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 25:",
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"text": "Joined in a Deputation of the Antislavery Society to Mr Hewens, Under Secretary for the Colonies, asking for a fuller enquiry into the shootings, finings, &c in Ceylon. We got no redress from this hardcrusted imperialist.",
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"ref": "1963, Harry M[onroe] Caudill, “The Union Drives”, in Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area, Boston, Mass.: Atlantic Monthly Press, Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, part IV (Boom and Bust), page 201:",
"text": "In later years, after the Second World War, the larger companies sent a new generation of youthful executives into the region for the purpose of ameliorating this deeply rooted animosity, but even their Rotary-learned jocularity and genial expansiveness could not soften the bias of men whose aversion had become hardcrusted in the heat of the bitter union drives.",
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"text": "Leong [Choon Cheong], studying national servicemen, concluded that “. . . theirs is a practical hardcrusted morality . . . there is more refraining than doing . . . largely negative moral behaviour and [goading this is] the fear of punishment” (Leong, 1978, p. 12).",
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"text": "In later years, after the Second World War, the larger companies sent a new generation of youthful executives into the region for the purpose of ameliorating this deeply rooted animosity, but even their Rotary-learned jocularity and genial expansiveness could not soften the bias of men whose aversion had become hardcrusted in the heat of the bitter union drives.",
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"text": "Leong [Choon Cheong], studying national servicemen, concluded that “. . . theirs is a practical hardcrusted morality . . . there is more refraining than doing . . . largely negative moral behaviour and [goading this is] the fear of punishment” (Leong, 1978, p. 12).",
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