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"ref": "1973 June 7, The Durham Sun, volume 85, number 87, Durham, N.C., page 7-C",
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"ref": "1975 July, the Staff of Trail Bike, “Big Four First: No Turn Signals, No Trials Tires, A Real Trail Bike!: Honda MR175 Elsinore”, in Dirt Bike, volume five, number seven, page 37",
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"ref": "1977 December 20, “Bonne Bell… cosmetics for young women of all ages”, in Great Falls Tribune, 92nd year, number 221, Great Falls, Mont., page 11",
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"ref": "1978, Muster ’78, page 103",
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"ref": "1979 March 14, Classy Bunch alias Munch Bunch, “Jerry & Peg!!”, in Kenosha News, Kenosha, Wis., page 21",
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"ref": "1980, Cleo Birdwell [pseudonym; Don DeLillo], Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pages 139–140",
"text": "I called because I’m going to be in the States in a week or so to play in one of those humongously vulgar tournament-of-champion events that the networks like to arrange.",
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"ref": "1980, L. R. Gay, Educational Evaluation & Measurement: Competencies for Analysis and Application, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, page 167",
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"ref": "1981, Michael Moynahan, How the Word Became Flesh: Story Dramas for Worship and Religious Education, Resource Publications, Inc., page 61",
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"ref": "1981, Virginia Euwer Wolff, quoting Judy, Rated PG, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, page 130",
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"ref": "1981, Lee Sparks, editor, The Youth Group How-to Book: 66 Practical Projects and Programs to Help You Build a Better Youth Group, Loveland, Colo.: Group Books, page 145, column 1",
"text": "Then there are those times we can almost visualize humongously heavy burdens on people’s shoulders.",
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"ref": "1981 April, “Dear Abyss”, in Crazy Magazine, number 73, Marvel Comics Group, page 57, column 2",
"text": "I hesitate because my best friend Anita is a pig, a real skag, and humongously rotund.",
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"ref": "2004, Tom Burns, Jeffrey W. Hunter, editors, Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, volume 187, Gale, →ISSN, page 15",
"text": "There’s a wonderful sketch of a formidable biker called “Roundhouse,” who is “humongously fat and hasn’t had a haircut since third grade.”",
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"ref": "1981 April, “Dear Abyss”, in Crazy Magazine, number 73, Marvel Comics Group, page 57, column 2",
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"ref": "2004, Tom Burns, Jeffrey W. Hunter, editors, Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, volume 187, Gale, →ISSN, page 15",
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