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But as Douthat knows, some pretense is always necessary to grease the wheels of personal relations, especially of diplomacy.

A "large" sewer blockage caused by "fat, grease and rags" has forced the cancellation of a Bryan Adams concert in Australia on public health grounds.

Imagine, a Kansas City Chiefs bar in the City of Brotherly Love, where authorities have to grease the light poles to keep jubilant Eagles fans from climbing them — and even that doesn’t work.

Sheriff’s officials maintained a map of evacuation areas covered with clear plexiglass and a grease pencil to mark it.

Despite playing with niggling injuries, the England man is without doubt the oil that is currently greasing the Real machine.