Then everyone, from my unit's sergeant major to the lowliest snuffy was on their feet, laughing and cheering.

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Cecil gave a snuffy smile as if at some rather basic misapprehension.

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But the prosecutor, whose hard-charging courtroom demeanor once earned him the nickname "Mad Dog" but is now known affectionately as "Snuffy, " denied that he derived any personal satisfaction from Jackson's latest legal quandary.

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