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    Kennedy's death and that killing Oswald would spare "Mrs. Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to trial". He also stated he shot Oswald on the spur of...
    153 KB (14,170 words) - 00:14, 9 May 2024
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    point of preceding a major foreign trip with a rocket launch, to the discomfiture of his hosts. In January 1960 Khrushchev told the Presidium that Soviet...
    158 KB (19,672 words) - 14:39, 8 May 2024
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    and that his motive for killing Oswald was "saving Mrs. Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to trial". Others have hypothesized that Ruby was part...
    137 KB (15,937 words) - 23:00, 9 April 2024
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    Bologna who took the New Learning to the University of Paris, to the discomfiture of his friend Erasmus. In their self-confidence, these first intellectual...
    69 KB (8,712 words) - 13:55, 26 April 2024
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    city a distinctly "Old World" feel. For locals, this became a source of discomfiture about the city's convict past, but is now a draw card for tourists. Regions...
    100 KB (8,155 words) - 04:13, 6 May 2024
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    worshipers, men and women, gods and animals. It is the moment after the discomfiture of Mara and his hosts. The Nagas, winged creatures, angels and archangels...
    172 KB (10,208 words) - 09:18, 2 May 2024
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    Counsellor The Way To Make the Cream Rise Jeremy Finds Out Something Mutual Discomfiture Getting into Chancery John Becomes Too Popular Lorna Knows Her Nurse...
    17 KB (2,126 words) - 01:45, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
    against us, and that such an attempt would only have insured a disgraceful discomfiture—not to the army, indeed, but to the Government which sent out an inferior...
    145 KB (17,743 words) - 21:16, 8 May 2024
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    a sort of catalyst; their antics are the cause of other characters' discomfiture, but they are left untouched. Shakespeare's Puck is an example of this...
    21 KB (2,351 words) - 02:45, 19 April 2024
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    Panin's savage reprisals, after the capture of Penza, completed their discomfiture. On 14 September 1774, Pugachev's own Cossacks delivered him to Yaitsk...
    16 KB (1,759 words) - 15:00, 18 March 2024
  • Richard Wagner plays quietly in the background during King's initial discomfiture at the hands of Titus Sinclair, played by Joe Pantoliano, and Diamond...
    20 KB (2,093 words) - 01:31, 29 April 2024
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    the season appearing in AL cities seeking to sign players, much to the discomfiture of the local team's management. The Giants finished last, and at the...
    89 KB (11,416 words) - 18:48, 4 May 2024
  • name. Her inability to rise up to her daughter's expectations and the discomfiture of her husband being mistaken for her younger brother further troubles...
    16 KB (1,640 words) - 02:57, 17 February 2024
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    galleries, and the sneerers among the pews, were hugely enjoying the discomfiture as they supposed, of the "strong-minded." Some of the tender-skinned...
    27 KB (3,622 words) - 15:17, 20 March 2024
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    Panin's savage reprisals, after the capture of Penza, completed their discomfiture. By 21 August 1774, Don Cossacks recognize that Pugachev is not Peter...
    39 KB (5,053 words) - 01:38, 1 April 2024
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    Fontaine's humorously named cat Rodilardus, and antiquated words like discomfiture (déconfiture), may fit an art song, there have also been faithful interpretations...
    17 KB (2,055 words) - 12:25, 29 April 2024
  • service to passers-by irrespective of rank. This results in the welcome discomfiture of the aristocratic former master and the founding of a famous new tradition...
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  • Thumbnail for Sam Giancana
    Publishing. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-8160-6989-7. "Crime boss' death linked to his discomfiture to mob". The Spokesman-Review. Vol. 93, no. 38. Spokane, Washington....
    45 KB (4,984 words) - 23:59, 8 May 2024
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    and Labour were able to portray their proposal as progressive to the discomfiture of Fianna Fáil. Ahern received staunch support during the campaign from...
    154 KB (15,372 words) - 20:39, 5 April 2024
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    Niger. After the defeat and death of Niger in 194, and the complete discomfiture of his adherents, especially after the fall of Byzantium in 196, Severus...
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