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1The Paranoid Style in American Politics — is an essay by the American historian Richard J. Hofstadter, first published in Harper s magazine in November 1964. Written at a time when Senator Barry Goldwater had won the Republican Presidential nomination over the more moderate Nelson A.… …
2toils — n.pl. a net or snare. Etymology: pl. of toil f. OF toile cloth f. L tela web * * * ▶ plural noun (poetic/literary) TRAP, net, snare. * * * plural of toil present third singular of toil * * * toils UK [tɔɪls] US …
3toil — toil1 toiler, n. /toyl/, n. 1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort. 2. a laborious task. 3. Archaic. battle; strife; struggle. v.i. 4. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields. 5. to move or… …
4toil — I [[t]tɔɪl[/t]] n. 1) exhausting labor or effort 2) a laborious task 3) archaic battle; strife 4) to labor arduously 5) to move or travel with great effort or weariness 6) to accomplish by unremitting labor • Etymology: 1250–1300; ME < AF toil …
5toil — 1 verb (intransitive always + adv/prep) 1 also toil away to work very hard for a long period of time (+ at/over): I ve been toiling away at this essay all weekend. 2 to move slowly and with great effort (+ up/through/against etc): They toiled… …
6toil — toil1 [tɔıl] v [I always + adverb/preposition] [Date: 1200 1300; : Anglo French; Origin: toiller, from Old French toeillier to disturb, argue , from Latin tudiculare to crush , from tudicula machine for crushing olives , from tudes hammer ] 1.)… …
7When We Were Orphans — Infobox Book | name = When We Were Orphans title orig = translator = image caption = author = Kazuo Ishiguro cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre = Crime novel publisher = Faber and Faber release date = 2000… …
8animism — animist, adj. animistic, adj. /an euh miz euhm/, n. 1. the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls. 2. the belief that natural objects have souls that may exist apart from their material bodies. 3.… …
9Sulpicius Severus — • An ecclesiastical writer, born of noble parents in Aquitaine c. 360; died about 420 25 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sulpicius Severus Sulpicius Severus …
10Count Gismond — is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning s Dramatic Lyrics. The poem is written in 21 verses. Count Gismond: Aix in Provence may, on one reading, be seen… …
