Ancestor/ Descendant PLUS "tote the line"
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Sun Nov 19 23:57:50 UTC 2006
I don't see these exx. in the Archives; frankly, I can't get enough of 'em:
1996 Fred Turner _Echoes of Combat_ (N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday) 100: As God once saved the colonists of New England, so now, [John] Wayne implies [in _The Green Berets_] the ancestors of those colonists will save another helpless people.
And on the next page:
1996...101: "The Communist side," wrote the _New York Times_, toting the Nixon line, was "inhuman."
Dr. Turner has taught communications at Harvard and MIT and is currently head of undergraduate communications programs at Stanford.
2004 Philip V. G. Wallace _The Call of the Sea_ (Victoria, B.C.: Trafford) 33: But, you just make him tote the line. He forgets his place sometimes.
JL
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