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111New World Disorder — ▪ 1994 by Daniel Schorr My friend Flora Lewis summed up the year 1991 in these pages, with appropriate tentativeness, as a time of transition. She noted the fears and uncertainties that had started cropping up in the wake of the collapse of …
112Badeni, Kasimir Felix, Graf von — ▪ Polish Austrian statesman Polish Kazimierz Feliks, Hrabia (count) Badeni born Oct. 14, 1846, Surochów, Galicia died July 9, 1909, near Krasne Polish born statesman in the Austrian service, who, as prime minister (1895–97) of the… …
113Heine, Heinrich — ▪ German author Introduction in full Christian Johann Heinrich Heine , original name (until 1825) Harry Heine born December 13, 1797, Düsseldorf, Prussia died February 17, 1856, Paris German poet whose international literary reputation… …
114crowbar hotel — noun jail Many unfortunate suckers, finding themselves losers, even in an honest game, became obstreperous, and the services of the bouncer, or even of a resident gunhand, might be required to pacify them, after which the complainant would be… …
115obstreperousness — noun The quality of being obstreperous …
116stroppy — adjective ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with …
117obstreperously — adverb in an obstreperous manner …
118Creation–evolution controversy — A satirical cartoon from 1882, parodying Darwin s theory of evolution, in response to the publication of The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms. The creation–evolution controversy (also termed the creation vs. evolution… …
119List of Breaking Bad characters — This is a list of characters from the AMC television series Breaking Bad. Contents 1 Main characters 1.1 Walter White 1.2 Jesse Pinkman 1.3 Skyler White …
120Douglas Cooper (art historian) — (Arthur William) Douglas Cooper, who also published as Douglas Lord[1][2] (20 February 1911 – 1 April 1984)[3] was a British art historian, art critic and art collector. He mainly collected Cubist works. Contents 1 …
