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  • 11Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race — The Single handed Trans Atlantic Race, or STAR, is an east to west yacht race across the North Atlantic. When inaugurated in 1960, it was the first single handed ocean yacht race; it is run from Plymouth to the USA, and is held every four years.… …

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  • 12So Close to Paradise — Infobox Film name = So Close to Paradise image size = caption = director = Wang Xiaoshuai producer = Han Sanping Tian Zhuangzhuang writer = Wang Xiaoshuai Pang Ming starring = Wang Tong Shi Yu Guo Tao Wu Tao music = Liu Lin cinematography = Yang… …

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  • 13Dean Close School — Motto Latin: verbum dei lucerna ( God s word. A guiding light ) Established 1886 Type Independent Religion Church of England Headmaster Jonathan Lancashire …

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  • 14Kas the Bloody-Handed — Nofootnotes|date=February 2008 Greyhawk character caption= name=Kas the Bloody Handed home=Unknown; later Tovag gender=Male race=Human vampire class=Fighter family=Narek(Son) alignment=Lawful Evil age=900+ universe= World of Greyhawk / Ravenloft… …

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  • 15cack-handed — 1. lacking skill with your hands. Rob made a cack handed attempt to fix the door and now it won t close at all. She doesn t strike me as the practical sort she s a bit cack handed. 2. lacking skill in the way that you deal with people. What… …

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  • 16Two-Handed Sword — a specialized type of great sword that became popular in the 16th century. The size and weight of the weapon, made it unsuited for close formation fighting, and its use was reserved for banner defense, guarding breeches in siege warfare, and… …

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  • 17open-handed — o|pen hand|ed [ ,oupən hændəd ] adjective generous ─ opposite CLOSE FISTED …

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  • 18Parsimony — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Parsimony >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 parsimony parsimony parcity| Sgm: N 1 parsimoniousness parsimoniousness stinginess &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 stint stint Sgm: N 1 illiberality illiberality avarice …

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  • 19penurious — I adjective chary, cheap, churlish, close, close fisted, close handed, frugal, greedy, grudging, illiberal, impoverished, in distress, in need, in want, indigent, mean, mercenary, miserly, needy, niggard, niggardly, nonpaying, parsimonious,… …

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  • 20churlish — adj 1. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, countrybred, country born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube …

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