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He would surely have carried the can if the mission had gone badly wrong.
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President Donald Trump rightfully gets to trumpet the special forces raid that killed the ISIS leader in Syria, just as he would have carried the can had it been a disaster.
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Mr Wheatley was perceived as too hostile to the banks and also carried the can for a botched announcement of a review of the life-insurance industry; a parliamentary report said the FCA made a "serious error" and "created a false market in life insurance shares".
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Frith, p. 440 In June 1993, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, Larwood was appointed an MBE for services to cricket. Of this award, Today newspaper commented: "At last the ruling classes honour the man who carried the can for their savage arrogance".
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In 1944, Joe Soap was RAF slang for a legendary airman who carried the can. When captured he pretended to break down and admitted he was in fact Flight Sergeant Joseph Lagan. Lagan was his brother in law and so Bruce could answer detailed questions about his service record etc. Initially the delighted Germans believed him and were ready to send him to a Stalag or 'other ranks' camp.
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He did not return to Australia. Following the war he essentially deserted his family, and he travelled to Africa where he committed suicide after a stay of six or seven years. Many years later, Cairns informed Gough Whitlam that he had long believed that his father had been killed in World War I, but that he was eventually told the truth of his father's desertion.Carr, Bob, "How Gough Carried The Can For Progress", Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, Australia) 26 October 2014 Cairns attended Sunbury State School and later Northcote High School, where he completed his Leaving Certificate.
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