"One man's terrorist..."

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Wed Jan 31 23:01:32 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:57:31PM -0800, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> My local library inexplicably lacks _The Yale Book of Quotations_, so I'm taking a chance that the following may not be redundant.
>

The amazingly well-researched and quite affordable _Yale Book
of Quotations_ has an example of this in its "Sayings"
section, with a first quote from Gerald Seymour's 1975
_Harry's Game_.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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