Hundreds of angry letters, punctuated with lots of exclamation marks, have poured into congressional offices.

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Asterisks and exclamation marks were used to tone down offensive language in the brochure and online.

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There's their fizz, of course, to punctuate your holiday with exclamation marks of popping corks (or hissing caps).

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Her memoirs, handwritten in a scrawl that only one friend could decipher and transcribe, are heavily packed with italics and exclamation marks and parentheses.

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Another chapter is a pretend letter from Caroline Herschel (another under-appreciated female astronomer of yore) who dishes out capital letters and exclamation marks like an over-eager e-mailer.

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