If not, then the only possible explanation is that Karl Rover is immortal, and Rip Van Winkled his way through the early and mid-20th centuries.
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The pleasures of Glenconner's tales must be winkled out of her sturdy if occasionally clichéd prose: revelations of the strange juxtapositions of an unexpectedly upstairs-downstairs aristocratic life.
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The pleasures of Glenconner's tales must be winkled out of her sturdy if occasionally clichéd prose: revelations of the strange juxtapositions of an unexpectedly upstairs-downstairs aristocratic life.
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As one example he offers, a recent legal determination by the Pentagon, winkled out by the MRFF, lays down what officers can say at change-of-command ceremonies or personal promotion celebrations.
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His political career ought surely to have ended in 2011, when Mr Ouattara's forces winkled him out of his bunker in Abidjan, the country's commercial capital, or when he was arrested later that year to face charges of war crimes before the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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But it was a long layover and eventually I winkled out the shoe box of Fook Ming Tong, tucked away on an upper floor, and handed over a not insubstantial wad of folding money for a package of Lovell's most highly recommended ambrosia: white silver tip tea from Fujian Province in southeastern China.
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Conandron is a genus that consists of 3 species of small ornamental alpine perennials, native to Japan and Taiwan. The botanical names comes from the Greek, meaning "cone-shaped anther". These plants are almost stemless herb with radical glabrous rugose, thick winkled leaves in flat tuffs leaves some 6in long. Erect flowering stems emerge from the ground bearing numerous pretty, lilac and white, star-shaped blossoms with bright purple at center in summer.
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By 14 March it was up to the Panlaung River, and then was ordered to switch direction towards Meiktila where a major battle was developing.Farndale, Far East, p. 277. As the division advanced towards Prome during May, the roads were infested with small enemy parties, which had to be winkled out using guns and infantry in close cooperation. On 1 June 1945, 20th Indian Division was transferred to Twelfth Army, which was being assembled for Operation Zipper (the amphibious invasion of Malaya).
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The horsemen were driven off by the guns firing over open sights and gunners of 25th Fd Rgt using rifles. The battery's observation posts (OPs) also drove off enemy infantry and dismounted cavalry who were working round the position. After the enemy had been winkled out of Keru Gorge, a three-day fight for Agordat followed, with the guns supporting infantry fighting their way up steep hills. By 1 February, the advance was continuing at high speed, the guns driving at 35 mph until they were stopped by artillery fire short of Ponte Mussolini on the Barka River.
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The Battle of Cotyaeum of 492 CETravel, communication, and geography in late antiquity: sacred and profane By Linda Ellis, Frank Kidner , 9780754635352 (Page 10) was fought in Phrygia EpictetusHazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer, p. 123. between the rebel Isaurian army led by Longinus of Cardala (other commanders included Conon Phuscianus, an ex-bishop, and Longinus of Selinus) and the Eastern Roman army of Emperor Anastasius led by John the Scythian and John the Hunchback (subordinate commanders included the future Justin I). The rebel forces were decisively defeated and were forced to retreat to their fortresses in Isauria where Byzantine imperial forces slowly winkled them out over the next seven years.
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