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"text": "Just ask yourselves this question, you older men, you silver-tops here—What was done with toxic thyroid disease before men like Charles Mayo, the elder Kocher, Crile, Miles F. Porter and other men established the surgery of toxic thyroid upon a fairly rational basis?",
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"ref": "1997 June 12, Raj Secura, “Ann Lander bashes men (again)!”, in soc.men (Usenet)",
"text": "As we all become \"Silver tops\" as seniors are referred to, we all may have problems around our sexuality, not the least of being, can we get it and keep it up.",
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"ref": "2008 August 30, Joe Orthodox, “The Palin Pick”, in alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox (Usenet)",
"text": "Biden is old enough to be Obama's daddy. In fact, I'm betting he and the white silver tops in the Democratic leadership were rooting for him because they're expecting to \"own our boy\" when he's in the WH.",
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"ref": "2011, Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, New York: Scribner, page 260",
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"ref": "2022 October 13, Charlie Carey, quoting Kath-Ann Terrett, “B.C. nurses rally outside VCH, as Hospital Employees' Union ratifies new agreement”, in CityNews, Vancouver, archived from the original on 2023-01-10",
"text": "\"It takes four years to get educated — we don't have four years. You know, us 'silver tops' are leaving the profession or retiring. I'm 60 and I'm still working,\" she said, adding she is delaying her retirement due to the challenges facing healthcare workers.",
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"text": "Just ask yourselves this question, you older men, you silver-tops here—What was done with toxic thyroid disease before men like Charles Mayo, the elder Kocher, Crile, Miles F. Porter and other men established the surgery of toxic thyroid upon a fairly rational basis?",
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"text": "\"It takes four years to get educated — we don't have four years. You know, us 'silver tops' are leaving the profession or retiring. I'm 60 and I'm still working,\" she said, adding she is delaying her retirement due to the challenges facing healthcare workers.",
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