Meanwhile, it's back to those well thumbed photos of Sabrata.

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Despite this, he remains committed to the ideal symbolised by the well-thumbed paperback in his pocket.

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That design will make it a well-thumbed resource in the upcoming tax reform debate.

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Their coupling isn't unique -- after all, Dashiell Hammett wrote about the married Nick and Nora Charles more than 70 years ago -- but it's still unusual enough to bring a few new angles to the well-thumbed P.

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Tellingly, it begins with the image of a sickly, tubercular child, rasping for breath in the night, and then the flare of a light as his older brother reaches for a dime-store paperback, a well-thumbed cowboy yarn he means to read before sleep.

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