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  • 41Because I'm Worth It — Infobox Book | name = Because I m Worth It title orig = translator = image caption = author = Cecily von Ziegesar cover artist = country = United States language = English series = Gossip Girl genre = Young adult novel publisher = Little, Brown… …

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  • 42Japanese dolls — Japanese DollsIn Japan some dolls relate to luck. One example of this is the daruma doll, a round doll composed of a head and body. Daruma represents Bodhidharma, an East Indian whose limbs withered after prolonged meditation. This doll… …

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  • 43strike — I. verb (struck; struck; also stricken; striking) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English strīcan to stroke, go; akin to Old High German strīhhan to stroke, Latin stringere to touch lightly, striga, stria furrow Date: before 12th century… …

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  • 44chance — I. n. 1. Accident, hap, fortuity, fortune, luck. 2. Possibility, contingency. 3. Opportunity, occasion, opening. 4. Uncertainty, contingency, fortuity. 5. Fortuitous event, piece of luck, stroke of good luck. 6. Risk, hazard, peril, jeopardy. II …

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  • 45hit — v. & n. v. (hitting; past and past part. hit) 1 tr. a strike with a blow or a missile. b (of a moving body) strike (the plane hit the ground). c reach (a target, a person, etc.) with a directed missile (hit the window with the ball). 2 tr. cause… …

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  • 46Hell Is for Heroes (film) — Infobox Film name = Hell Is for Heroes imdb id = 0056062 writer = Richard Carr Robert Pirosh starring = Steve McQueen Bobby Darin Fess Parker James Coburn Bob Newhart Nick Adams director = Don Siegel producer = Henry Blanke movie music = Leonard… …

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  • 47Dragon Red — was the mastermind of Landslyde, of the former Poetic Ammo fame, which started out at the end of 2001 with the guitarist Amil Khan and the vocalist Adam Lobo and subsequently to evolutionary changes in the composition, currently features Manshaan …

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  • 48fluke — fluke1 /floohk/, n. 1. the part of an anchor that catches in the ground, esp. the flat triangular piece at the end of each arm. See diag. under anchor. 2. a barb, or the barbed head, of a harpoon, spear, arrow, or the like. 3. either half of the… …

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  • 49Alger, Horatio — ▪ American author also called  Horatio Alger, Jr.   born Jan. 13, 1832, Chelsea, Mass., U.S. died July 18, 1899, Natick, Mass.  one of the most popular American authors in the last 30 years of the 19th century and perhaps the most socially… …

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  • 50fluke — noun what a nice fluke, finding you here Syn: chance, coincidence, accident, twist of fate; piece of luck, stroke of good luck/fortune, serendipity …

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