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William Frank Buckley Jr
William Frank Buckley, Jr. 1925-2008, American editor, author, and lecturer, b. New York City, grad. Yale, 1946. A popular, eloquent, and witty spokesman for the conservative point of view, Buckley helped found the modern conservative movement and played an important part in promoting the growth of... Read more |
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columnist
columnist the writer of an essay appearing regularly in a newspaper or periodical, usually under a constant heading. Although originally humorous, the column in many cases has supplanted the editorial for authoritative opinions on world problems. Usually independent of the policy of the... Read more |
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William F. Buckley Jr
William F. Buckley Jr. Author, editor, and political activist, William F. Buckley, Jr. (born 1925) helped to create the modern conservative political movement. His journal, National Review, prepared the way for the presidential terms of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. William F. Buckley, Jr.,... Read more |
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National Review
NATIONAL REVIEW NATIONAL REVIEW, founded in 1955, was the flagship journal of American political conservatism throughout the late twentieth century. The journal was conceived by William F. Buckley Jr., then in his late twenties and already the author of two books, one a lament at the... Read more |
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William Davis Ticknor
William Davis Ticknor 1810-64, American publisher. John Reed and James T. Fields became Ticknor's partners in Boston, and their firm is best known as Ticknor and Fields. They published the works of many of the famous Americans of the day, including Longfellow, Lowell, and O. W. Holmes, and their... Read more |
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Tecumseh
Tecumseh , 1768?-1813, chief of the Shawnee , b. probably in Clark co., Ohio. Among his people he became distinguished for his prowess in battle, but he opposed the practice of torturing prisoners. When the United States refused to recognize his principle that all Native American land was the... Read more |
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John Williams (United States)
John Williams 1664-1729, American clergyman, b. Roxbury, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1683. In 1686 he became the first minister at Deerfield, Mass. During the great Native American massacre at that frontier town in Feb., 1704, he and his family were taken captive. Two of his children were murdered, and... Read more |
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Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. 1923-98, American astronaut, b. East Derry, N.H., grad. Annapolis, 1944. He served on a destroyer during World War II and later had extensive experience as a test pilot. On May 5, 1961, under the U.S. space program Project Mercury, he became the first American to be... Read more |
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William Frederick Halsey Jr
William Frederick Halsey, Jr. (Bull Halsey) , 1882-1959, American admiral, b. Elizabeth, N.J., grad. Annapolis, 1904. In World War II he led (Jan., 1942) a spectacular carrier raid against the Marshall Islands and Gilbert Islands, and during the campaign in the Solomon Islands he assumed command... Read more |
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Robert R Williams Jr
Williams, Robert R. (1886–1965) American chemist; crystallized thiamin (vitamin B1) 1933 and synthesized it in 1935. The vitamin research was conducted in his spare time; he was employed as a chemist by the Bell Telephone Company.... Read more |
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JOURNALESE
...Gill, ‘Journalese: The Inside Story’, story is too long for the space available...there is a picture, then the story may be little more than a caption to that picture; when the story is ... |
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Nemerov, Howard
...Lindsay and Russel Crouse as Tall Story (1959); and A Commodity of Dreams (1959), stories. His well‐wrought poetry has...and in 1980 a Bollingen Prize; Inside the Onion (1984); and War Stories (1987). His essays appear in... |
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Ovid
...collective’ narrative relating disconnected stories inside a large historical (Metamorphoses) or chronological...enjoyed great favour. Chaucer and Gower both borrowed his stories. But the late 16th and early 17th cents were England... |
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Churchill, Winston
...government, and A Far Country (1915) is a story of the conflict of private interests with...concerned with the problem of divorce; The Inside of the Cup (1913), dealing with the...Dwelling Place of Light (1917), the story of a New England factory strike. Dr... |
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JOURNALISM
...therefore a greater emphasis on ‘gossip’ and ‘inside stories’ than in the ‘heavies’ (the serious papers), although...tabloid; preferred headline styles; longer or shorter stories and features) and in the linguistic style that appeals... |
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myths and the Earth sciences
...historical phenomena ... a traditional story originating in a pre-literate society dealing...those that were with Noah in the ark. This story, based at least in part on the Babylonian Gilgamesh...punish men for their sins; demons who lived inside the Earth and in their fury ... |
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Courtenay, William (Leonard)
...controversial production of The Harem (1924). His last appearance was as Governor Hazleton in the gangster melodrama The Inside Story (1932). Courtenay was essentially a matinee idol, but one of the handsomest and most durable. Oliver Morosco felt... |
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MI9
...Commonwealth forces got back to the Allied lines after being inside enemy territory, whether as escapers or as evaders. A substantial...unknown, of MI9 or of its American equivalent MIS-X.Escape stories, many of them hair-raising, form a distinct and distinguished... |
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Purloined Letter, The
Purloined Letter, The, detective story by Poe, published in his Tales (1845).The prefect of the...looked in the most obvious places, and found the letter, turned inside out and disguised in an exposed card rack. Diverting the minister... |
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Modernism
...narration to another without warning; the works may be reflexive, about their own writing, or they may place one story inside another. Instead of plot events, there is an emphasis on characters' consciousness, unconsciousness, memory, and... |
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Feis Tighe Chonáin
...Fionn mac Cumhaill tells stories about himself, some of which...the most significant of the stories Fionn gives three versions...clears, the men find themselves inside the churl's Otherworldly...has close parallels in the stories of Donn mac Míled in ... |
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Bodhidharma
...eyes and lack of legs derive from these stories of Bodhidharma.) Hui-k'o, the...the monk returned, he recounted the story, whereupon the other clergy opened the tomb, and found only a single sandal inside.Much of the above legend clearly is based on later ... |
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oilliphéist
...Irish oral tradition. In the best-known story, the oilliphéist cuts the route of the...out its kind. In a comic addition to the story, the oilliphéist swallows a drunken piper...Ruairc [O'Rourke] who continues to play inside the monster, thus annoying it until coughed... |
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Sodom
...entrance had homosexual intentions. But in fact the ‘men’ inside the houses were angels, so that we, the readers, are aware that homosexual acts could not have been committed! The story cannot therefore be teaching that the city was destroyed... |
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Flagg, James Montgomery
...posters. Flagg, whose illustrations were found on the covers of and inside all the leading magazines of the day, was also known for his pictures and portraits of celebrities, as well as for numerous short stories. |
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hot
...having a high degree of heat or a high temperature: it was hot inside the hall basking under a hot sun. ∎ feeling or producing an...difficult to deal with; awkward or dangerous: he found my story simply too hot to handle. ∎ (of a hit or return in ball games... |
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go
...the scar started just above her ankle and went all the way up inside her leg. ∎ change in level, amount, or rank in a specified...specified content or wording: if you haven't heard it, the story goes like this. 6. [intr.] be harmonious, complementary... |
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Dún Bolg
...in baskets loaded on to 300 teams of twelve oxen each. Once inside the enemy encampment, the young Leinstermen emerged from their...Celtic Heritage (London, 1961), 125–6, argue that this story demonstrates the function of Leinster among the five provinces... |
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Orgain Denna Ríg
...cent.), and the Yellow Book of Lecan (c.1390), and the story was repeated by the historian Geoffrey Keating (17th cent.). At the centre of the action is the...house until Labraid's mother and jester go in before him. Inside, Labraid tactfully observes that plenty of drink, food, and... |
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salmon
...both caught by Fionn mac Cumhaill. In the better-known story of the two, the bard Finnéces had been fishing for the salmon for seven years when...soul’ of the hero Cú Roí resides in a golden apple inside a certain salmon; to kill him, Cúchulainn has first to kill... |
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lowdown
...dastardly.antonyms: kind, honorable. • noun he gave us the lowdown synonyms: facts, information, story, intelligence, news, inside story; informal info, rundown, score, scoop, word, dope, dirt, poop, skinny. |
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scoop
...portion, lump, ball; informal dollop. 3. informal he got the scoop on the new CEO synonyms: exclusive (story), inside story, exposé, revelation, information. • verb 1. a hole was scooped out in the floor synonyms: hollow out... |
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skinny
...noun informal everybody wants to know the skinny on Karen's divorcesynonyms: gossip, (inside) information, intelligence, news, inside story; informal lowdown, info, dope, dirt, scoop, poop. |
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dope
...nincompoop, nitwit; inf. chump, dimwit, nerd. 3. what's the latest dope?synonyms: information, inside information, story, news; facts, data, details; inf. info, poop, word, low-down. |
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intelligence
...intelligence from our operatives synonyms: information, facts, details, particulars, data, knowledge, reports, inside story; informal info, dope, skinny, lowdown. 3. intelligence operation synonyms: information gathering, surveillance... |
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inform
...in the picture, fill in, clue in/up, put wise, spill the beans to, tip off, give the low-down to, give the inside story to. 2. optimism informs her writingsynonyms: characterize, typify, pervade, permeate, suffuse, infuse, imbue... |
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information
...figures, statistics, data; knowledge, intelligence; instruction, advice, guidance, direction, counsel, enlightenment; news, word; informal info, lowdown, dope, dirt, inside story, scoop, poop.See note at knowledge. |
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Inside Stories: Qualitative Research Reflections
Inside Stories: Qualitative Research Reflections...qualitative studies. Inside Stories is a book that can be appropriately...research methods. Inside Stories does not precisely instruct...are rarely told the "real ... |
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Inside stories
...Straits Times 06-28-2004 Inside storiesByline: Caroline YapEdition...entertained His Majesty with stories of the naked emperor or a grandmother...before words meant anything, stories were being told around blazing...images. Who needs to be told a story when ... |
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Built to Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies from Baseball's...
...Larry Guest. Built to Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies from...columnist Larry Guest and tell the story of his remarkable success...the field. It opens with the story of a trade that never happened...2004 season is one of the ... |
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INSIDE STORIES A new prisons scheme aims to boost literacy and keep inmates...
...convincing ?huff and puff ? to the story of the Three Little Pigs...children's drawings, is inside a prison. And the softly...fellow prisoners read bedtime stories to their children each night...but a slick CD of a favourite story, read by a mother for ... |
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Religious Right Falsehoods Slammed in Eve Herold's 'Stem Cell Wars: Inside...
...will release "Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories from the Frontlines" written by...The book reveals numerous untold stories about the stem cell policy wars...to an ape-like state. -- The inside story of the Bush Administration and... |
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The Inside Stories of Some Country Songs
...Nashville, I've heard this story many different ways over the...Heart Out, Country Boy - The Inside Stories of Classic Country Songs...KINGSBERRY: Yeah, that's a funny story because the folks who wrote...if you please, the true stories ... |
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Becoming Lean - Inside stories of US manufacturers
...01780 480627) Becoming Lean - Inside stories of US manufacturers Editor: Jeffrey...Becoming Lean, you will find the stories of North American manufacturers...reader a unique opportunity to go inside their implementation processes to... |
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COMICS GO BEHIND THE JOKES INSIDE STORIES SHARE BILLING WITH THE HUMOR AT...
...said David of the show's story lines. "It's not." In...failed to get the joke. One story about Congress' plans to leave...newspaper in Beijing. Another story ("Harry Potter Books Spark...to be more about catching the inside scoop rather than showcasing... |
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Putting the World in a Box: Joseph Cornell's Inside Stories
...few who did, most were boggled by the stories that Cornell chose to tell. Fairy...it with brown velvet. He floored its inside with a mirror, on which he scattered...from clear glass. Above them, on the inside of the box's hinged lid, appears this...covered landscape. It ... |
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The inside stories of modern political scandals; how investigative reporters...
9780313365133 The inside stories of modern political scandals; how investigative reporters have...delves into the methods used by the journalists to pursue their stories and contains anecdotes from the reporters involved and examples... |
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