• He called it "Sanctuary." When the book was ready to be published, Faulkner went to New York and completely rewrote it.

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  • He called it "The Last Tycoon." Fitzgerald's friend from Princeton University, the literary critic Edmund Wilson, helped to get it published.

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  • Poets called it the Golden Age. A golden age now describes a historical period of great artistic,scientific or economic progress.

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  • They called it a sacrifice to research that led the way to one of the greatest medical discoveries of the century.

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  • John Boehner, the minority leader in the House of Representatives, called it "thought crimes" legislation and "radical social policy."

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  • Doctor Supachai Rerks-Ngarm, who led the study for the Thai Ministry of Public Health,called it a scientific breakthrough.

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  • He called it "the height of irresponsibility" at a time when they were asking taxpayers for help.

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  • A Baltimore newspaper first called it that during the nineteen twenties when the manufacture and sale of alcohol were banned for a time.

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  • Some called it the wedding of the year - or the decade - or the century.

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  • They called it the Free Soil Party, because they believed in free land for free settlers.

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  • Instead,Congress called it Utah, after the Ute tribe of Native American Indians that lived there.

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  • In eighteen sixty-eight, the American writer James Parton called it "hell with the lid off."

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  • He called it a "tragedy" and a "twenty billion dollar shakedown" of a private company.

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  • The New York Times called it one of the best books of the year.

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