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suh pahyn

  • s  lying face upward
  • s  offering no resistance
    No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt

  • The movie begins in typical teen horror gross-out fashion, with the two protagonists in biology class, hunched over the slit belly of a supine frog.
  • But the fact that the normally supine federal government did the job for them made the news even sweeter.
  • But the French would have to learn that they had less to fear from a producing Germany than from a supine Germany which would cause the rest of Europe to slide into economic chaos.

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