When Lisa appealed to the Reno Spark Indian Colony, two Indian Health Service doctors agreed to go visit Johnny but were told by jail officials they were not allowed to see him.

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And we go, oh Johnny Otis.

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The corner men's expected battle with Colin Cooper and Johnny Crowley could go a long way towards deciding the outcome.

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These days, if you go see a Tim Burton movie you are in effect going to watch Johnny and Helena do their weird thing, probably in outlandish costumes.

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In any event, other trends suggest that for every Timmy Willie, there is a Johnny Town-Mouse: many people like urban life and want to go on living in a city, particularly the centre.

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Dettori came through on the outside with 300 meters to go and came home unchallenged from 6-1 shot Eagle Mountain, the mount of Johnny Murtagh and one of eight runners for Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien.

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In February 1969 he had recorded the follow-up to Folsom Prison, Live at San Quentin, which would go on to sell even better than its predecessor, and ABC had just commissioned the weekly Johnny Cash Show which would turn him into a prime time TV star.

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Alas, his work there is now forgotten, and he spent his declining years batting out profiles of show-business celebrities like Mel Brooks and Johnny Carson for the New Yorker, a sad way for so spectacularly gifted a writer to go out.

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Or will ministers at least set a target date for its implementation so we can prepare the ground for the day when we can all go abroad and speak other languages rather than simply speaking more slowly and loudly in English in the hope "Johnny foreigner" will understand?

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