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"ref": "1933, John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown",
"text": "The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the hind quarters of a still-squealing little pig.",
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"ref": "2005, Pippa de Bruyn, Frommer's South Africa, page 376",
"text": "The Zimbabwean telephone exchange is temperamental (make that hair-tearingly frustrating)...",
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