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William Joseph Slim 1st Viscount Slim
William Joseph Slim Slim, 1st Viscount 1891-1970, British field marshal. He saw service in several campaigns, notably Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, in World War I. After the war he joined the Indian army, rising in rank to brigadier in 1940. He commanded (1940) British forces in Sudan and led (1941) a... Read more |
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George Douglas Howard Cole
George Douglas Howard Cole 1889-1959, English economist, labor historian, and socialist. Educated at Oxford, he was long associated with the university and held a professorship from 1944 to 1957. For many years a leading exponent of guild socialism , he later returned to his original Fabianism,... Read more |
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Mary Mapes Dodge
Mary Mapes Dodge 1831-1905, American writer of children's stories, b. New York City. During her lifetime she was the acknowledged leader in the field of juvenile fiction. Her story Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates (1865) has become a children's classic. From 1873 until her death she edited and... Read more |
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hawk
hawk name generally applied to the smaller members of the Accipitridae, a heterogeneous family of diurnal birds of prey, such as the eagle , the kite , the Old World vulture , and the secretary bird . Hawks belong to the same order as the falcon , the New World vulture, and the osprey . Hawks... Read more |
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John Howard
John Howard 1726-90, English prison reformer. He had great influence in improving sanitary conditions and securing humane treatment in prisons throughout Europe. He was responsible (1774) for persuading the House of Commons to enact a set of penal reform acts. Bibliography: See biographies by M.... Read more |
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Robinson Jeffers
Robinson Jeffers 1887-1962, American poet and dramatist, b. Pittsburgh, grad. Occidental College, 1905. From 1914 until his death Jeffers lived on the Big Sur section of the rocky California coast, finding his inspiration in its stern beauty. For Jeffers the world, viewed pantheistically, was... Read more |
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Albert Sidney Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston 1803-62, Confederate general, b. Washington, Ky. After serving in the Black Hawk War, he resigned (1834) from the U.S. army and went to Texas where he enlisted (1835) in the revolutionary army. Johnston became its commander in 1837 and served as Texas secretary of war,... Read more |
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Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (Edward James Hughes), 1930-98, English poet, b. Mytholmyroyd, Yorkshire. Hughes's best poetry focuses on the unsentimental within nature. His poems are marked by controlled diction and style, which create a sense of order and meaning in violent or passionate natural events, often in the... Read more |
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Edmund Pendleton Gaines
Edmund Pendleton Gaines 1777-1849, U.S. army officer, b. Culpeper co., Va.; brother of George Strother Gaines. He spent his boyhood in Tennessee and at the age of 22 joined the U.S. army. He surveyed (1801-4) Gaines Trace between Nashville and Natchez. In 1807 he arrested Aaron Burr and then... Read more |
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Paul Keating
Paul Keating 1944-, Australian politician. A trade-union official and member of the Labor party, he was first elected to parliament in 1969. As federal treasurer (treasury minister) from 1983 to 1991 and deputy prime minister under Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1990 to 1991, he advocated... Read more |
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Hawks of Hawk‐Hollow, The. A Tradition of Pennsylvania
Hawks of Hawk‐Hollow, The. A Tradition of Pennsylvania...her brothers, a wild group known as the Hawks, vowed revenge but fled during the Revolution...comes to the valley, where he falls in love with Catherine Loring, daughter of the... |
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Give Your Heart to the Hawks
Give Your Heart to the Hawks, free‐verse narrative by Jeffers, the...accident. (“Oh, give your heart to the hawks for a snack o' meat But not to men...s fiancée, Mary Abbey, and making love to Fayne on Michael's grave. Mary confesses... |
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Jeffers, (John) Robinson
...centered humanity by “falling in love outward” with his nonhuman surroundings...included in this volume is Hurt Hawks, expressing the poet's concept of...love. Give Your Heart to the Hawks, and Other Poems (1933) is...inhabited only by the fierce ... |
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...become a vowel or disappear: hawk from OLD ENGLISH heafoc...as in have, give, live, love, the present spelling became...commonly written o, as in dove, love, glove, cover, discovery...mock-spelling such as luv for love doubly flouts the conventions... |
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Wescott, Glenway
...presenting the same dour interpretation of the Midwest. The Pilgrim Hawk (1940), his first work of fiction in ten years, is set in...and concerns three couples, linked by three different kinds of love. Images of Truth (1962) is a collection of essays about literary... |
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Nicholas Nickleby
...uncle's designs exposed to the gross insults of Sir Mulberry Hawk, one of his associates. From this persecution she is released...a home for his mother and sister. Nicholas himself falls in love with Madeline Bray, the support of a selfish father and the... |
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Scott, Evelyn
...work, Precipitations (1920), a book of poetry; and a play, Love (1920). Her first two novels, The Narrow House (1921) and...for life in the modern economic order; and The Shadow of the Hawk (1941), about a boy who grows up knowing his father had been... |
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Scott, Winfield
...Old Fuss and Feathers” because of his love of gaudy uniforms. After serving in...sent to the West to fight the in Black Hawk War. In 1836 he went to Florida to fight...end of 1861. While prosecuting the Black Hawk War, Scott prepared himself to cope with... |
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Peredur
...skill and polish in hunting, war, and love. To avenge Cei's insult to a dwarf...by a hermit in a snowy valley, when a hawk attacks a wild duck and a crow settles...hair, white skin, red lips. But this love he will not know. After a return to Arthur... |
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Ritual Dances
...Waters in Winter (The Otter pursues the Fish); The Air in Spring (The Hawk swoops on the Bird). In Act 3 occurs the 4th dance Fire in Summer (celebration of carnal love). Comp. 1947–52. F.p. Basle 1953, Liverpool 1954 (before f... |
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Gerald, Earl of Desmond
...Historical (1338–98) Hiberno-Norman nobleman, composer of love poetry, who became 3rd Earl of Desmond (i.e. south Munster...plays at his wife's bosom, until he is pursued by a predatory hawk, which she dashes against a wall, killing it. But the lady... |
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Taliesin
...greyhound; he a salmon, and she an otter; he a bird, and she a hawk; he a grain of wheat, and she a hen who swallows him. Magically...until the 19th century. Taliesin became a character in Thomas Love Peacock's satirical novel The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829... |
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Hawk loves Sox's deal.
Byline: Teddy Greenstein CHICAGO _ When Hawk Harrelson first learned of the White Sox's plans to broadcast...Reinsdorf): `We have to do this again next year.'" Harrelson loves that Sox fans can see the team without having to travel to Tucson... |
 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Thibault, Hawks would love to play spoilers' role.(Sports)
...called up from Norfolk. The Hawks don't like the Blues very much and would love to damage their playoff chances...Tkachuk. The last time the Hawks made the playoffs in 2001...they need these games." The Hawks will try to rebound from that... |
 "The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)")
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'Hawk Love' comes flying into Boulder
They call it "Hawk Love" up in Idaho that personal, even intimate...conference. "So, let's throw a little 'Hawk Love' out there and let's get going...Hawkins left to take over at Colorado. "Hawk always said that one of the reasons we... |
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AFL: Hawks greats love watching 'Buddy'
...Australia) 09-24-2008 AFL: Hawks greats love watching 'Buddy' By Roger Vaughan...miss. Knights pointed out that the Hawks have a long tradition of No.23s...AAP rhv/slb KEYWORD: AFL HAWKS FRANKLIN 2008 AAP Information Services... |
 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Hawks love 'Shak' in playoff win
...mouth 5A football playoff game in which the Hawks finally emerged as victors, 17-3...the Vikings went toe-to-toe with the Hawks and, thanks to a 46-yard field goal...over Shakerin's head, resulting in the Hawks having to settle for a field goal. Jerad... |
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A banker hawks a love potion Bear wrestler and pontificator on Fox enhances...
...Group International Herald Tribune 04-22-2008 A banker hawks a love potion Bear wrestler and pontificator on Fox enhances...pontificator for Fox Business Network. By night, he peddles a love potion. Mamajuana Energy, a berry-flavored liquid... |
 "The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)")
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Spreading the 'Hawk Love' Hawkins brings his passion for life to his job of...
...Boise State. He refers to himself in the third person, but he sounds sincere -- not arrogant -- when he talks about "Hawk Love," his very Zen amalgamation of coaching, loyalty and friendship that he promises to give each of his players. He... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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OLD HAWKS LOVE TO TALK A GOOD FIGHT.(Perspective)
...warriors said the troops will be primed to strike the moment the deadline arrives. The pattern is familiar. The older the hawks, the farther they are from the front, the more ready they are to talk a good fight. Steve Weller writes for the Fort Lauderdale... |
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Grace & her Hawks love story
...had no idea she was heading out on the first date of a lifelong love affair. "I didn't know a thing about football," Grace said...memories," she said. Along the way, the Nemmers passed on their love of Iowa football to nine children, 12 grandchildren and 13 great... |
 "Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH)")
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Hawk's love life gets laugh on ESPN OSU star, dating sister of Notre Dame QB,...
...in a few weeks. And besides, Hawk's girlfriend probably wouldn...Brady's older sister. And Hawk's four-month relationship...Fowler teasingly mentioned the "love triangle," causing the two...When Herbstreit questioned Hawk on how he has handling the ... |
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