He thought the government was tracking him with an electric fan they left on his car.

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The doctor also defended Moussaoui's view, raised in numerous court pleadings when he was acting as his own lawyer, that the FBI might have placed a listening device on an electric fan in his Oklahoma apartment.

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The weather had been unseasonably warm, and he considered buying Obie a small electric fan but decided against it, because it would just make him unhappy if he ever had to live without one again.

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The room is jammed with their possessions: plastic bags filled with clothes, an electric fan, Amy's stuffed animals, cooking utensils.

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Johnston , the 54-year-old chief executive of Albertsons, is an abiding fan of Foreman's, having used the consultant throughout a long career at General Electric.

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Fan Catherine Morgan, from Earlsfield, south-west London, said the performance was "electric".

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His acquisition of two electric guitars from 1955 inspired the revved-up new song "21st Century Blues, " in which the boyhood fan of sci-fi books pines for the flying cars and Mars colonies predicted in the Space Age.

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