two-em-dashed

Updated: May 10, 2025

Julio Kubanoff answered. "You getting everything I'm sending in?" I asked. "Yes. What's that two-em-dashed thing up ahead, one of the harbor dredgers?" "That's right. Hey, look at this, once." I turned the audiovisual down on the claw derrick. "The men on it look like Rodriguez & Oughourlian's people, but they say Steve Ravick sent it. What do you know about it?" "Hey, Ralph!

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You sure this is a good tip, though?" Across the room, somebody jumped to his feet, kicking over a chair. "That's a double two-em-dashed lie, you etaoin shrdlu so-and-so!" somebody yelled. "Who are you calling a so-and-so, you thus-and-so-ing such-and-such?" somebody else yelled back, and a couple more chairs got smashed and a swirl of fighting started. "Yes, it is," Oscar decided. "Let's go."

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