The media crush was so overwhelming that Flutie took to shooing away Boston Herald reporters camped in front of his parents' nearby Natick, Mass.

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Dr. House makes a brilliant diagnosis, then single-handedly intervenes to save the patient, often shooing away bureaucrats and the rare nurses haplessly getting in his way.

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It's easy to imagine private security contractors shooing away anyone disturbing their clients' peace and quiet, but equally likely there will be a security breach and looting of such a flamboyant enclave.

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Brown enacted it by dropping to his knees, awash in sweat, unable to dance another step, yet shooing away his cape bearer, the aide who would enrobe him and hustle him offstage.

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