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douglas
noun
Plural of dougla
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Douglas thanked his fellow nominee and co-star Matt Damon on stage, telling the audience at the at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles that he could not have done it without the man who played his on-screen lover Scott Thorson.
Douglas Vinter would never claim to be a good man.
McEwan said he overheard a version of this anecdote and decided to use it, only to be told by a member of the Hay audience that a similar incident, involving chocolate biscuits, appears in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Festival panels such as How To Live? featuring writers Douglas Coupland, Anne Manne and social researcher Hugh MacKay examine humanity's quest for happiness and its changing relationship to technology and nature.
The term is often a symptom of lazy thinking by a generation that hasn't played games and can't see what all the fuss is about (or, as the great Douglas Adams put it: "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Douglas has this year been widely applauded for his role in Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, as well as helping to raise public consciousness about links between the HPV virus and cancer.
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The items include soldiers, a Southern plantation scene and the Lincoln-Douglas debates' stop in 1858 at Knox College.
Labour's Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, talks "a lot of sense on Europe", he said.
This was a worthy sequel to the previous day, when, as one wit remarked, a party with just one MP had managed a backbench rebellion – as Ukip's solitary presence in Westminster, Douglas Carswell resisted party pressure to take the parliamentary subsidy known as Short money.
Victory would be a remarkable feat and make the SNP candidate for Paisley and Renfrewshire South the youngest ever MP, as well as overturn the 16,610 majority of one of Labour's biggest hitters in Scotland, shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander.
Again he doesn't name names, but when talking of those who thought small rather than big, the indications are that he is referring to election campaign chief Douglas Alexander.
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