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"ref": "2012, Paul Carson, Scalpel, Random House, page 200",
"text": "This is one dangerous bastard. I hope he rots in hell.",
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"ref": "2017, Mal Walden, The Newsman: Sixty Years of Television, Brolga Publishing, page 18",
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"ref": "2019, Gunther Stent, Nazis, Women and Molecular Biology, Routledge, page 290",
"text": "Now it was April 20, 1947, the late Führer's fifty-eighth birthday: I felt utterly secure at Aachen Station. The son-of-a-bitch was rotting in hell, and I was alive, a homeward-bound officer of the U.S. government.",
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"ref": "2015, Frank K. McGarry, To Hell with Terrorism, Dorrance Publishing, page 54",
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