Woodward
C(omer) Vann, 1908–99, U.S. historian.
Robert Burns, 1917–79, U.S. chemist: Nobel prize 1965.
a town in NW Oklahoma.
Contemporary Examples
The Real Rebekah Brooks Clive Irving July 28, 2011
The Perils of Biography in the Bradlee-Himmelman Storm Lee Siegel May 19, 2012
Joe Biden Portrayed as Key Deal Broker in New Bob Woodward Book on Obama Eli Lake September 6, 2012
What Director Alan Pakula’s Papers Reveal About Watergate Max Holland June 11, 2012
The Perils of Biography in the Bradlee-Himmelman Storm Lee Siegel May 19, 2012
Historical Examples
Mingo Joel Chandler Harris
College Teaching Paul Klapper
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) Charles Creighton
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 Ian Hamilton
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector William Carleton
noun
Sir Clive. born 1956, English Rugby Union player and subsequently (1997–2004) coach of the England team that won the Rugby World Cup in 2003.
R(obert) B(urns). 1917–79, US chemist. For his work on the synthesis of quinine, strychnine, cholesterol, and other organic compounds he won the Nobel prize for chemistry 1965
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