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name and man
`` I'm just a poor ex-jazz man, name of -- uh -- Boyd Smith ''.
Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.
He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.
Under any name -- Mr. Speaker, Mr. Democrat, Mr. Sam -- he was a good man.
His words were the more ungracious to come from a man who lent his name to the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships dedicated to the same goal of international understanding.
They crowded the small room and peered over one another's shoulders to watch the handless man write his name in the book.
This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.
In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.
Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.
`` Such a vicious statement can only have its origin in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known by condemning a man of world stature.
to those who believe in his name: Who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Part of the confusion could stem from there being another man by the same name in Cooperstown in 1839.
Her father was a man of consular rank ; her grandfather's name was Catulus.
Etymologically, the name is derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ), meaning " defending men " or " protector of men ", a compound of the verb " ἀλέξω " ( alexō ), " to ward off, to avert, to defend " and the noun " ἀνδρός " ( andros ), genitive of " ἀνήρ " ( anēr ), " man ".
Andronicus or Andronikos is a classical Greek name ( Ανδρόνικος ), from the Gr. words " andras ", ( Gr. άνδρας ), i. e. man and " Nike " ( Gr. Νίκη ), i. e. victory.
However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).
Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek ( Androméda ) or ( Andromédē ): " ruler of men ", from ( anēr, andrós ) " man ", and medon, " ruler ".
Amongst those who patronized the old man was the patrician family Falier of Venice, and by this means young Canova was first introduced to the senator of that name, who afterwards became his most zealous patron.
A man with the same name as those given by the FBI turned up alive in Saudi Arabia, saying that he had studied at the University of Denver and his passport was stolen there in 1995.
Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord ; and the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up ; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ἀλέξειν ( alexein ) " to defend " and the noun ἀνδρός ( andros ), genitive of ἀνήρ ( anēr ) " man ".
Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".
" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.
To meet that aim, Brabham and Tauranac set up Motor Racing Developments Ltd. ( MRD ), deliberately avoiding the use of either man ’ s name.

name and o
The digraph '' ( called għajn after the Arabic letter name ʻayn for غ ) is considered separate, and sometimes ordered after ' g ', whilst in other volumes it is placed between ' n ' and ' o ' ( the Latin letter ' o ' originally evolved from the shape of Phoenician ʻayin, which was traditionally collated after Phoenician nūn ).
: Yes ... ah ... Monday ... er ... Dad and Peter H ... ( his own name ), and Dad .... er ... hospital ... and ah ... Wednesday ... Wednesday, nine o ' clock ... and oh ... Thursday ... ten o ' clock, ah doctors ... two ... an ' doctors ... and er ... teeth ... yah.
According to the rules of Indo-European ablaut, the full grade ( containing an * e ), * gheud -, might be replaced with the zero-grade ( the * e disappears ), * ghud -, or the o-grade ( the * e changes to an * o ), * ghoud -, accounting for the various forms of the name.
In the Middle Irish period the name is often spelled Mórrígan with a lengthening diacritic over the ' o ', seemingly intended to mean " Great Queen " ( Old Irish mór, ' great '; this would derive from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic * Māra Rīganī-s ).
Despite its appearance, the Germanic name is not derived from the Latin name, judging from the change from earlier o into a, which is characteristic of the Germanic languages.
The prefix q was introduced to avoid the prefix o being mistaken for a zero, while the prefix 0o was introduced to avoid starting a numerical literal with an alphabetic character ( like o or q ), since these might cause the literal to be confused with a variable name.
The generic name Okapia derives from the Lese Karo name o ' api, while the specific name ( johnstoni ) is in recognition of the explorer Harry Johnston, who organized the expedition that first acquired an okapi specimen for science from the Ituri Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He discovered in the hieroglyphic text the phonetic characters " p t o l m e s " ( in today's transliteration " p t w l m y s "), that were used to write the Greek name " Ptolemaios ".
") states, " Haue been pleased to giue lysence vnto o < sup > r </ sup > said Subjects to proceed in the said voiadgs, & for the better inabling them to establish a trade into & from the said East Indies Haue by o < sup > r </ sup > tres Pattents vnder o < sup > r </ sup > great seale of England beareing date at Westminster the last daie of december last past incorporated o < sup > r </ sup > said Subjecte by the name of the Gou < sup > r </ sup > no < sup > r </ sup > & Companie of the me < sup > r </ sup > chaunts of London trading into the East Indies, & in the same tres Pattents haue geven them the sole trade of theast Indies for the terme of XV < sup > teen </ sup > yeares ..."</ ref > making it the oldest among several similarly formed European East India Companies.
It ended in 1201, and the last decade of Sancho's reign was a period of peaceful reform which earned for the king his popular name of o Povoador, " the Populator ".
In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Oerth, pronounced as " Orth " ( long " o ") or " oyth ", is the name of the fictional planet on which one of the earliest campaign settings, the World of Greyhawk, is located.
Averroes ' name is also seen as Averroës, Averroès or Averrhoës, indicating that the " o " and the " e " form separate syllables.
The city's name is pronounced by Bulgarians with a stress on the ' o ', in contrast with the tendency of foreigners to place the stress on ' i '.
Other examples include Titus ' " Ah, wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands ,/ To bid Aeneas tell the tale twice o ’ er ,/ How Troy was burnt and he made miserable?
Lerner's name for his imaginary locale was probably based on a well-known Scottish landmark, the Brig o ' Doon ( Bridge of Doon ).
The work was called Go-oo, a name under which a set of patches for OO. o software has been available for five years.

name and war
Near the end of his service he wrote that when the war was over he was going to buy two pups, name one of them `` Fall-in '' and the other `` Close-up '', and then shoot them both, `` and that will be the end of Fall-in and Close-up ''.
With this derivation, the name would have a double meaning in the poem: When the hero is functioning rightly, his men bring grief to the enemy, but when wrongly, his men get the grief of war.
By Caracalla's time the name Alemanni was being used by cantons themselves banding together for purposes of supporting a citizen army ( the " war bands ").
Inscriptions as early as Mycenaean times, and continuing into the Classical period, attest to Enyalios, another name for the god of war.
Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.
From the start of the war, Massoud's mujahideen proved to be a thorn in the side for the occupying Soviet forces by ambushing Soviet and Afghan communist convoys travelling through the Salang Pass, resulting in fuel shortages in Kabul .< ref name =" Iyer ">
The name itself may have originated as a nickname given to women who carried water to men on the battlefield during the war.
After the war, the company was refounded at Abingdon Road, Kensington and a new car designed to carry the Aston-Martin name.
" Station X ", " London Signals Intelligence Centre " and " Government Communications Headquarters " were all cover names that were used during the war, and the latter ( GCHQ ) was adopted for the successor peacetime organisation that still bears this name.
As a child Orwell ( under his real name Eric Blair ) published poems praising Kitchener and war recruitment in his local newspaper.
Seed, an ex-miner who had made a career as a footballer despite suffering the effects of poison-gas in the first war, remains the most successful manager in Charlton's history and he is commemorated in the name of a stand at the Valley.
Through the teaching of John Thomas and the need in the American civil war for a name, the Christadelphians emerged as a denomination, but they were formed into a lasting structure through a passionate follower of his interpretation of the Bible, Robert Roberts.
Katayama desired to build and sell passenger cars to people, not to the military ; for him, the name " Datsun " had survived the war with its purity intact, not " Nissan ".
Editor war is the common name for the rivalry between users of the vi and Emacs text editors.
Film noir, which was given its name by Nino Frank, is marked by lower production values, darker images, underlighting, location shooting, and general nihilism: this is because, we are told, during the war and post-war years filmmakers were generally more pessimistic ( as well as filmgoers ).
As most of the Assembly still favoured a constitutional monarchy rather than a republic, the various groups reached a compromise which left Louis XVI as little more than a figurehead: he was forced to swear an oath to the constitution, and a decree declared that retracting the oath, heading an army for the purpose of making war upon the nation, or permitting anyone to do so in his name would amount to abdication.
This can't be called a war in the name of Islam.
A sore point with many gnutella developers is that the Gnutella2 name conveys an upgrade or superiority, which led to a Gnutella2 flame war.
Orwell also submitted his name to the Central Register for war effort but nothing transpired.
He had perforce to swear an oath to the constitution, and a decree declared that retracting the oath, heading an army for the purpose of making war upon the nation, or permitting anyone to do so in his name would amount to de facto abdication.
The French army recruited French Forces of the Interior ( de Gaulle's formal name for resistance fighters ) to continue the war until the final defeat of Germany ; this army numbered 300, 000 men by September 1944 and 370, 000 by Spring 1945.
Two political factions operated in Carthage: the war party, also known as the " Barcids " ( Hannibal ’ s family name ) and the peace party led by Hanno II the Great.
However, about 12, 000 Volunteers, led by Eoin MacNeill and dominated by the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ), refused to join the British war effort and kept the name " Irish Volunteers ".
As the only company that continually produced Jeep vehicles after the war, Willys-Overland was granted the privilege of owning the name " Jeep " as a registered trademark in June 1950.
This kenning follows a convention whereby the name of any god is combined with some male attribute ( e. g. war or weaponry ) to produce a kenning for " man ".

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