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Sat 05 May 2009Law of anarchy, cruelty of care
THE SYSTEM was so well developed that it had its own language. An electric jowler: a downwards blow on the face that felt like “getting an electric shock”, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE
Dirty Hairy Sixpence: a name given to a man who put a sixpence in his trouser pocket and invited a boy to retrieve it.
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