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Its food and service have had a more checkered past.

Although the floor is instead a red and black checkered pattern.

During the last three years the division has turned in a checkered performance.

Only the dark squares of the checkered board are used.

The floor is of marble, and a checkered one at that.

The work has had a checkered career under the scrutiny of the Church.

I have had what you might call a checkered career,' Greg told him.

That's right, Wilson kept my checkered past out of the media.

But the city also has a checkered past in racial relations.

"They used white and red chocolate to make the checkered part," she said.

"I think your friend here has a more checkered past than we've been led to believe.

However, it seemed as though success had gone to the checkered champion's head.

Never before, in his checkered career, had he encountered such a night as this.

To be sure, vaccine production has a checkered legal history.

"What's the name of the one in the checkered shirt?"

Jones, at 36, is 7 years older than Williams and has had a checkered career.

Mexico, with a checkered drug enforcement record, also has much for which to answer.

The marble floor had a black and white checkered pattern.

For Louie had gone too far in his checkered career.

And once again, Gordon held on to take the checkered flag.

Recent reports confirm the checkered history of labor rights in the country.

It's a great time to be in the checkered tablecloth business.

Maybe better, given the computer's somewhat checkered history in the reliability department.

We didn't come to argue about the military's checkered history.

An old checkered cap was tipped over one of his eyes.