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  • 31Crabbed Approach — Boeing 707 (E 3 Sentry − „AWACS“) beim Landeanflug mit Vorhaltewinkel Windsack …

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  • 32Crabbedly — Crabbed Crab bed (kr?b b?d), a. [See {Crab},n.] 1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. [1913 Webster] Crabbed age and youth can not live… …

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  • 33Crabbedness — Crabbed Crab bed (kr?b b?d), a. [See {Crab},n.] 1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. [1913 Webster] Crabbed age and youth can not live… …

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  • 34MIRABEAU, VICTOR RIQUETTI, MARQUIS DE —     crabbed old friend of men, born at Pertuis, in Provence, claimed to be of Florentine descent; could never make the world go to his mind, and set about reforming it by coercing a family as self willed as himself, to the driving of his… …

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  • 35crab — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba; akin to Old High German krebiz crab and perhaps to Old English ceorfan to carve more at carve Date: before 12th century 1. plural crabs also crab any of… …

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  • 36sullen — sullen, *glum, morose, surly, sulky, crabbed, saturnine, dour, gloomy can mean governed by or showing, especially in one s aspect, a forbidding or disagreeable mood or disposition. One is sullen who is, often by disposition, gloomy, silent, and… …

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  • 37sullen — adjective Etymology: Middle English solein solitary, from Anglo French sulein, solain, perhaps from sol, soul single, sole + ain after Old French soltain solitary, private, from Late Latin solitaneus, ultimately from Latin solus alone Date: 14th… …

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  • 38Rough for Radio II — is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in French in 1961 as Pochade radiophonique and published in Minuit 16, November 1975. Beckett translated the work into English shortly before its broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 13th April 1976.… …

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  • 39crab — crab1 crablike, adj. /krab/, n., v., crabbed, crabbing. n. 1. any decapod crustacean of the suborder Brachyura, having the eyes on short stalks and a short, broad, more or less flattened body, the abdomen being small and folded under the thorax.… …

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  • 40crab — I [[t]kræb[/t]] n. v. crabbed, crab•bing 1) ivt any decapod crustacean of the suborder Brachyura, having a wide and flattened body, with a small abdomen folded under the thorax 2) ivt any of various crablike arthropods, as the horseshoe crab 3)… …

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