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take the wind — American to be summarily dismissed from employment or courtship Usually of the person dismissed but occasionally of the one who rejects: She takes the wind on me a couple of months ago for my friend Frankie Ferocious. (Runyon, 1990,… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
attach — at·tach vb [Anglo French attacher to lodge (an action in court), seize (a person or property) by legal authority, from Old French atachier to fasten, fix, alteration of estachier, from estache stake] vt 1: to obtain a court order against… … Law dictionary
confiscate — con·fis·cate / kän fə ˌskāt/ vt cat·ed, cat·ing: to seize without compensation as forfeited to the public treasury compare criminal forfeiture ◇ Illegal items such as narcotics or firearms, or profits from the sale of illegal items, may be… … Law dictionary
annex — an·nex /ə neks, a ˌneks/ vt 1: attach (2) correspondence annex ed to the petition a greenhouse annex ed to the building 2: to incorporate (as a territory) within a po … Law dictionary
de facto public officer — Summarily defined as one who has the reputation of being the officer he assumes to be, and yet is not a good officer in point of law. Comprehensively defined as a person exercising the duties of the office (1) without a known appointment or… … Ballentine's law dictionary
Srebrenica massacre — Srebrenica genocide Part of Bosnian War The cemetery at the Srebrenica Potočari Memorial and C … Wikipedia
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Korea) — South Korea s Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( ko. 진실·화해를 위한 과거사 정리 위원회) is a commission established on December 1, 2005, to investigate historical incidents in Korean history, such as the Japanese rule of Korea. The body has investigated… … Wikipedia
2008 Nord-Kivu campaign — Part of the Kivu conflict of the Second Congo War Villagers fleeing from a Kibati village … Wikipedia
Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… … Universalium
France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… … Universalium
