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1pass your lips — see ↑pass, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑lip pass your lips 1 of words : to come out of your mouth : to be spoken The word “quit” has never passed her lips. [=she has never said the word “quit”] 2 of food or drink : to go into your mouth : to be eaten or… …
2Read my lips: no new taxes — Bush delivering the famous line at the 1988 convention Read my lips: no new taxes is a now famous phrase spoken by then presidential candidate George H. W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National Convention as he accepted the nomination on August 18 …
3CAMPS — (Concentration and Extermination). The English language term concentration camp is commonly used to describe a wide number of places of internment created by Nazi Germany, which served a variety of functions and were called by different names:… …
4Trope — Trope, n. [L. tropus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn. See {Torture}, and cf. {Trophy}, {Tropic}, {Troubadour}, {Trover}.] (Rhet.) (a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or… …
5Abstinence — • Includes information about old and new testament fasting as well as church laws Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Abstinence Abstinence …
6Cornet — This article is about the B♭ instrument. For E♭ instrument, see Soprano cornet. For other meanings of the word Cornet, see Cornet (disambiguation). Not to be confused with coronet or cornett. Cornet …
7Fasting girls — Mollie Fancher, the Brooklyn Enigma Fasting girls is a Victorian term for young females, usually pre adolescent, who, it was claimed, were capable of surviving over indefinitely long periods of time without consuming any food or other nourishment …
8ASCETICISM — ASCETICISM. Rigorous abstention from any form of self indulgence which is based on the belief that renunciation of the desires of the flesh and self mortification can bring man to a high spiritual state. Asceticism never occupied an important… …
9Poor People's Campaign — Organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Poor People s Campaign addressed the issues of economic justice and housing for the poor in the United States[1] King said, “We believe the highest… …
10Moltke, Helmuth von — ▪ German general [1800–91] Introduction in full Helmuth Karl Bernhard, Count (graf) von Moltke born October 26, 1800, Parchim, Mecklenburg [Germany] died April 24, 1891, Berlin, Germany chief of the Prussian and German General Staff (1858–88)… …
