She mended the glasses with blue tape and put them ready for the next day.

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And, in a drawer of the back bedroom, mended with blue tape, ready and waiting, the glasses he should have been wearing.

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As Mr Obama stood amid the red, white and blue ticker tape with his family, it was a moment to drink in the rapture of the crowd.

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As a former mayor puts it, the city has gone from white pines to red tape to blue chips.

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Mr. HOMER: And I took a roll of blue painter's tape and starting wrapping it around my fingers and my hand and eventually wrapped it all around all my fingers and my hand in a certain way that in the pattern that you see on the glove.

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And this education continued throughout his life, though there came a time when the blue spiral notebook was supplanted by a tape recorder.

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Although the faded blue paper is torn at the edges, with pieces of Scotch tape scarring the back, the intricate white ink designs vividly evoke the lost stadium.

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