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Clew

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To roll into a ball

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Nearly all the students at the Academy were Democrats Frank had been known to tip his hat to Comptroller Craig... President Emeritus addressed the the boys, when he placed a clew in the middle of the street, said "Fair play, boys, fair play".

ON top of the pancake, something was writhing: a clew of bonito flakes in silent riot, the diaphanous curls lurching and shuddering.

No one's been harassed by a goose, head-butted by a dolphin, nor has anyone in the series come home drunk to find that a clew of worms have somehow broken into their living room and assembled to spell "sod off" on the carpet.

In the tradition of all great shaggy-dog stories, Hanif throws into the mix a few more potential sources of blame, including a clew of tapeworms and a mango-eating bird.

In the nearby village of Wark, researchers heard another bizarre sentence: "She's got a clew in her bottom". It meant: "She's got a swelling in her bottom". It was said of children who would not sit still.

All 73 poems are meditations upon something beginning with that letter, from Courtesans to "The Clew", Cyclists to (gulp) Critics – "Notepads in laps/ and pre-conceptions ready…" There is, noticeably, no "Christopher" or any four letter "C" ending in –unt, which Craig Raine could doubtless write 73 poems about in the blink of an eye.

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Mr. Clow also praised Mr. Jobs as a genius and an innovator.

"Steve said, 'I want one commercial that'll stop the world in its tracks,' " Mr. Hayden said, to which Mr. Clow, deadpan, interjected, "He was never very demanding".

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In the memo, Mr. Clow described Mr. Jobs as "the most amazing person I have ever known" and "the best client we ever had" – and "my friend".

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