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• Tended to, as a hedge
• Did some lopping
• Tread designed to accommodate drill narrowing at one end
• Eliminated the excess from, as topiarists do
• Trimmed the bushes
• Narrow head of tree monkey with rosy behind
• Like pool cues
• Tended to topiary
• Paid to keep secret what one did making Bush appear smart?
• Bureaucracy, having shifted communist to the right, came to a point
• Palladium, introducing old character, cut back
• Cart-horse bureaucracy, up to a point?
• Record revolutionary coming to a point
• Thanks to exercise, looking hot and sweaty but gradually got thinner
• Spruced up, as a spruce