Even as senators, deputies and regional electors put their folded paper ballots into urns in the Chamber of Deputies, leaders ranging from Monti to ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi, were paying calls on Napolitano at the presidential palace to beg him to consider serving again.

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Robert Jordan unpinned a safety pin that ran through his pocket flap and took a folded paper out of the left breast pocket of his flannel shirt and handed it to the man, who opened it, looked at it doubtfully and turned it in his hands.

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He said that he merely folded the paper up and put it in his pocket.

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The man bent, found a wallet in his coat, took out a folded sheet of paper, offered it.

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For another client at an industry confab, each issue of the paper was folded with an insert displaying a USA Today "snapshot" color chart describing a fact about the company.

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His mom, Laura, was cleaning the family room downstairs last year when she found a folded-up piece of paper.

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He took out the piece of paper, often folded, worn.

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Bridey rolled her eyes, folded the gum into a scrap of paper, and tossed it into a wastebasket by the door.

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An earlier paper started by Roberto's father had folded and it was assumed that O Globo would fold too.

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