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holy
holy sacred (often in Christian phraseology).Holy City Jerusalem; (in Christian tradition) Heaven.Holy Cross Day the day on which the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross is held, 14 September.holy day a day consecrated or set apart for religious observance; also called holy day of obligation.Holy... Read more |
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seven
seven the number seven is often used symbolically, denoting completion or perfection, especially in echoes of biblical phraseology.Seven against Thebes in Greek legend, the name given to the expedition against Thebes led by Polynices, son of Oedipus, against his brother Eteocles. When both young... Read more |
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teraphim
teraphim , in the Bible, a plural term of uncertain origin referring either to household idols or to idols set up in a local sanctuary, or consulted for purposes of divination. Little is known regarding their form, except that they could be of a person's size, or small enough to be carried by hand.... Read more |
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localism
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North Little Rock
North Little Rock city (1990 pop. 61,741), Pulaski co., central Ark., on the Arkansas River opposite Little Rock; settled c.1856, inc. as a city 1903. North Little Rock lies in a cotton, rice, soybean, dairy-cattle, and truck-farm area. There is food processing and printing and the manufacture of... Read more |
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Pituitary tumors
Craniopharyngioma Definition Craniopharyngioma is a cancer which arises in the pituitary gland, in tissue originally found in the embryo. One of the most common childhood brain cancers, it is also sometimes called a Rathke's pouch tumor or a suprasellar... Read more |
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town
town in the United States. In the New England states the town is the basic unit of local government . The New England town government's unique feature is the town meeting, much praised as a nearly pure form of democracy. At the annual meeting of voters, town officers are elected and local issues... Read more |
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Battle of Glenshiel
Glenshiel, battle of, 1719. A small Spanish force landed at Loch Alsh in April 1719 to support the Jacobite cause. But the other part of the invasion was aborted, they received little local support, and Wightman advanced against them from Inverness. On 10 June the two groups, each about 1,000... Read more |
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Program seeks to preserve culture through language: Ponca Phraseology.
...the Ponca language. He hopes to prevent, or at least stave off, the language's demise. "They want...learn the language, and other parents had noticed at least 30 Ponca children in local schools. They gathered together for their first... |
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Welcome to ATC 101: like an ROTC program for an FAA career, tomorrow's top...
...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The phraseology was right out of the...with a pulse can at least try out for a chance...show aircraft both on local radar scopes and moving...Island. "We teach phraseology and we teach procedure," says Donofrio, "But ... |
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Beneath the paint A would-be Blue Man auditions for rare role
...lark, he attended a local audition, one of many...line with this great local blues drummer, so I...asked me to express the phraseology with my face. I was...time I worked on my phraseology with an actual Blue...to androgynize me a little, ... |
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You're not the boss of me
At my local pub, I am reminded that...see. There are all these little signs telling us not to...go on? This place is my local. You are as likely to find...is turning, in his vivid phraseology, into "a Gestapo khazi... |
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Two Shakespeares
...anecdotes from his new neighbors. The local townspeople were happy to oblige. They...noticed similarities in word usage and phraseology. Long before Lord Campbell had considered...guessed the Bard knew "small Latin and less Greek," but Digges implies Shakespeare... |
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No compromise on compromise.(THE LAST WORD)
...Republican Party were to compromise one little bit on the First Amendment, that member...though the justices tried to formulate phraseology to intelligently categorize speech as...government secrets. Similarly state and local governments may hold someone responsible... |
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SNOW BUSINESS: LAURENCE GOES TO LAPLAND; Changing Rooms' Laurence...
...shoulders and noses with the locals - reindeer. There are 200...the deer, but Laurence looks less certain. He soon puts his...he tells the trainer. Little does she know houses all round...laughs at her husband's poetic phraseology. Despite being the ... |
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Dyeing their white collars blue
...capitalism's creative destruction, at least during times like these, when destruction...the helm and Romney's own Scroogean phraseology - saying "I like being able to fire people...who blows into town to close down the local plant, they'd send Romney or his double... |
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Interview: President Chen of Taiwan to visit US, assures China that the...
...Beijing' s leaders espouse new phraseology, we still hear them talking...They still see Taiwan as a local government, as a province...can accept that Taiwan is a local government within the People...towards Beijing, there seems little in the way of ... |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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SELL-OUT CROWD SWINGS WITH GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA.(LOCAL)(Review)
...Pennsylvania 6-5000,'' ``Chattanooga Choo-Choo,'' ``Little Brown Jug'' and ``String of Pearls.'' Larry O'Brien...who sings like an honor graduate from the Sinatra School of Phraseology. The next set of Miller memories was connected with his job... |
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