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• Helmed
• Competed politically
• Like thrift-shop goods
• Superintended
• Sought public office
• ___ to be
• Like many textbooks
• Bled, like dyes
• Flew the coop
• Made (off)
• Some autos
• Absconded
• Had charge of
• If it follows also, it's a failure
• Competed at Belmont