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coward
coward cowards die many times before their death a comment on vividly imagined fears, often with allusion to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once.’ The saying is recorded from the late 16th century.cowardy... Read more |
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Combat Trauma
Combat Trauma. That war can wound minds as well as bodies was not recognized for many years. Military physicians often diagnosed combat trauma as malingering; high‐ranking officers regarded it as a threat to discipline and combat effectiveness. Some of the soldiers executed as cowards during... Read more |
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Qantas Airways Limited
Qantas Airways Limited Qantas CentreLevel Nine, Building A203 Coward StreetMascotNew South Wales 2020Australia(02) 9691 3636Fax: (02) 9691 3277Web site: http://www.qantas.com.au Public CompanyIncorporated: 1920 as Queensland and NorthernTerritory Aerial Services LimitedEmployees:... Read more |
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Sir Noel Coward
Sir Noël Coward (Sir Noël Pierce Coward) , 1899-1973, English playwright, actor, composer, and director, b. Teddington, England. Coward first gained wide prominence in 1924 acting in his The Vortex. His name soon became synonymous with sophistication, wit, and a world-weary... Read more |
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Thomas Bayes
Bayes, ThomasBIBLIOGRAPHYThomas Bayes (1702–1761) was the eldest son of the Reverend Joshua Bayes, one of the first nonconformist ministers to be publicly ordained in England. The younger Bayes spent the last thirty years of his comfortable, celibate life as Presbyterian minister of the meeting... Read more |
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fey
fey originally (in Old English, in form fǣge) fated to die soon; the word is of Germanic origin, and related to German feige ‘cowardly’.The original meaning is still current in Scottish usage, but from the early 19th century the word has developed a more general sense of... Read more |
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Flashman
Flashman a character in Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) by Thomas Hughes, revived from 1969 in a series of humorous novels by George Macdonald Fraser. Flashman is a bully and a coward (as in the original novel), and his reputation as a hero is entirely undeserved, but his saving grace appears to... Read more |
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Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr 1895-1967, American comic actor, b. New York City, originally named Irving Lahrheim. Lahr first performed in burlesque and vaudeville, where he became known for his morose facial expression. After his Broadway debut in Harry Delmar's Revels (1927), he appeared in numerous Broadway... Read more |
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wizard
wizard a man who has magical powers, especially in legends and fairy tales. Recorded from late Middle English, the word originally meant ‘philosopher, sage’, and comes from wise; the sense of a person skilled in the occult arts dates from the mid 16th century.In The Wonderful Wizard... Read more |
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WHAT COWARDS! Courageous: Professor Colin Blakemore.
...recanted from his position, which is that vivisection,as humanely practised as possible...recently, and shamefully, Tony Blairtry to make as much money as they possibly can out...because of his 'controversial work on vivisection'. The memoadded that 'he had now moved... |
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Brother made himself ill to avoid bullies.
...it and he used to make himself ill so he...one wants to be a coward - they would die firs...you have to support vivisection and if you oppose vivisection you cannot in good...of the cruel art of vivisection. ANDREW TYLER Director... |
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Give students a choice in the way they learn
...the appointed hour, with notebooks and vivisection kits, and did as they were told. And...wager, nobody missed me. I took the coward's way out, feigning an upset stomach...much when I also failed to show up for a make-up session, he said nothing. I got... |
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Letters from readers.(NEWS)
...that you have changed the public's opinion on vivisection with this stunt? It seems to me that the Animal...to commit murder in the first degree for these cowards and, if the courts can't make the law "fit," that our Legislature enact... |
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Roseanne over Jennings. (Comment).(Peter Jennings)
What a difference a year makes. Immediately after September 11...launching US cruise missiles were cowards. At Pentagon briefings, reporters...Edgar Hoover, has been opened for vivisection. The New York Times's Tom Friedman... |