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February 23, 2012

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agitate v.t.: commove

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Twelve years ago, Fuller founded [Habitat for Humanity to] provide the poor with “simple, decent, affordable housing.’’ . . . Fuller, 53, is an Ichabod Crane look-alike who is incessantly joking, cajoling, commoving, pressing, pleading for Habitat. (Don Winbush, American Ideas: “Habitat for Humanity a Bootstrap Approach to Low-Cost Housing,” Time, 1/16/1989, p. 12.)

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