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  • to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS. 1943, Robert H. Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, Supreme Court...
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  • with a widely-reported self-descriptive remark by baseball player Reggie Jackson. straw that stirs the drink (plural straws that stir the drink) (idiomatic...
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  • 52, number 2, pages 493-523 Bender, Byron W., Goodenough, Ward H., Jackson, Frederick H., Marck, Jeffrey C., Sohn, Ho-Min, Trussel, Stephen, Wang, Judith...
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  • oolith (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂éwis)
    University Press, 2019–2022. ooid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Robert L. Bates, Julia A. Jackson (1980) M. Gary, R. McAfee, Jr., and C.L. Wolf, editors, Glossary...
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  • Johannes H. L. Bosman, The Plough & the Sword, page 257: “Me muvver always said I should a joined the Andrew.” (Royal Navy.) Andrew County Andrew Jackson Andrew...
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  • humble (category French terms with mute h)
    would pleaſe;   And ſhe muſt ſuffer, who can love. 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”...
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  • Indiana. A township in Jackson County, Indiana; named for local politician James Hamilton. An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Madison County...
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  • Thomas Jackson, A Treatise of the Primaeval Estate of the First Man, Section 2, Chapter 13, in An Exact Collection of the Works of Doctor Jackson, London:...
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  • nail (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃negʰ-)
    Proto-West Germanic *nagl, from Proto-Germanic *naglaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ- (“nail”). Cognates Compare Saterland Frisian Nail (“nail”), West Frisian...
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  • high-priced Synonyms: magastos, (gay slang) maharlika, (gay slang) Mahalia Jackson Antonym: mura mahal na pang-matrikula ― expensive tuition fee (archaic)...
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  • Sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and Warr. 1788, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Humanity, or the Rights of Nature‎[1], London: T. Cadell, Book 2...
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  • Churches of Asia Minor Illustrated. […], volume II, London, Liverpool: Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Son, & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 26–27: The river Meander [now...
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  • of mink. 2010, J[ohn] Randy Taraborrelli, “Son vs. Father”, in Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, updated paperback edition, London:...
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  • (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Titus 2:5: discreet; chaste; keepers at home 1971, H. R. F. Keating, The Strong Man: I was...
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  • alternating with tendrils twenty feel long. 1910 October, Sidney Wm. Jackson, “Additional Notes on Tooth-billed Bower-Bird (Scenopaeetes dentirostris)...
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  • ii: tis a pretie toy to be a Poet. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire:...
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  • picking fruit, down to his present stopping-place. 1951 November 26, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, “Gallegos...
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  • Club‎[1], archived from the original on 6 August 2020: And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former...
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  • J. D. Hooker, written during a Botanical Mission to India” in William Jackson Hooker (editor), Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany,...
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  • ’thad beene, to see Thy little Saviour perking on thy Knee! 1779, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 24, in Shenstone-Green: or, the New Paradise Lost‎[14],...
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  • Hann Hansom Hanson Heaven Heavens Ianson Ions Ivins Jack Jackett Jacks Jackson Jaggs Jain Jane Janes Janson Jayne Jaynes Jean Jeanes Jeans Jenkin Jenkins...
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  • Washington Township, Washington County, Indiana. An unincorporated community in Jackson County and Jones County, Iowa. A small city in McPherson County, Kansas;...
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  • the bitch to let you sleep in the house? 2003, “If I Can't”, in Curtis Jackson (lyrics), Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed...
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  • casement with the night-rain drips. 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way : Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright;...
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  • discomfort and its foes’ glee. Other places in the United States: A town in Jackson County, Alabama. A neighbourhood and historic district in Homewood, Jefferson...
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  • run (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃er-)
    run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”). Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne...
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  • Billy Graham, is George Bush's spiritual advisor. Bill Clinton had Jesse Jackson. Here's the part I don't understand: How can someone else advise you on...
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  • russet (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁rewdʰ-)
    Walkes o're the dew of yon high Eaſterne Hill, […] 1786 November, [Samuel Jackson] Pratt, “The Cherry-Tree”, in The Scots Magazine, volume XLVIII, Edinburgh:...
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  • motion, instead of striking with an audible knock. 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”...
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  • backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked. (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed...
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  • fellow black man. 1987, Eddie Murphy Raw, spoken by Eddie Murphy: [Michael Jackson] went on television and said, “I don't have sex because of my religious...
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  • equation integral theory integral transform integration iterated integral Jackson integral Lebesgue integral line integral logarithmic integral Mellin-Barnes...
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  • [from 19th c.] Synonyms: alpinist, cragsman, mountain climber 1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, edited by T. N. Longman and L. B. Seeley, Gleanings through Wales...
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  • the trees. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 25:25: As cold waters to a thirstie soule:...
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  • of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The...
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  • seven? Australian Football League, 30 April 2019. Accessed 6 May 2019. Jackson Hately, Isaac Cumming and Nick Shipley have been in great touch in the...
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  • systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy. 2003, Daniel Jackson, Paul Fulberg, Sonic Branding: An Essential Guide to the Art and Science...
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  • refunded first order. Von Stein, Bernardsville, N.J. 1995 January 18, Ed Jackson, “Re: US sheets -- Sell for how much?”, in rec.collecting.stamps‎[1] (Usenet):...
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  • saliva 1992, Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters‎[4]: Only the year before, the conjure man had brought in the Jackson County madstone...
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  • in six languages, and he's only five years old. 2015 February 20, Jesse Jackson, “In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires...
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  • of last season's grand final against Leicester. 2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record‎[3]: And the moment it thumped...
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  • between capital and labor regarding retirement savings 2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”...
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  • remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride. 1775, Samuel Jackson Pratt, The Legend of Benignus, Chapter 5, in Liberal Opinions, upon Animals...
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  • History of Cornwall. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [F]or the author, by W. Jackson; sold by W. Sandby, […], →OCLC, page 6: [I]n the year 1752, which we may...
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  • Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules Winnfield (Samuel L[eroy] Jackson): The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities...
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  • for my two pals, and told them to look out for F. and his nark. 1914, Jackson Gregory, Under Handicap: "Hey, Greek," Roger was saying, his droning voice...
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  • purblind (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pewH-)
    Meditations and Soliloquies, with Religious Experiences, […], Dublin: […] Robert Jackson […], →OCLC, page 59: To love and adore is our proper province, not to...
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  • Skutch, “Duty”, in Moral Foundations: An Introduction to Ethics, Mount Jackson, Va.: Axios Press, →ISBN, page 447: But whence comes this strange feeling...
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  • absent. Synonyms: anesis, remittence Her cancer was in remission. 1791, Robert Jackson, “Of Prognostic in the Fevers of Jamaica”, in A Treatise on the Fevers...
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  • for things but that was time ago. 2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, Sagirah Gammon, 00:38:33 from the start, in Brady Hood...
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  • you probably have a nice piece of wood that's properly dry. 2012, Rich Jackson, Guiding Daniel, →ISBN, page 195: I learned that music is expectancy and...
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  • Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; Dublin: W. F. Wakeman; New York, N.Y.: W. Jackson, →OCLC, part II (Of Finishing), page 128: In plate II. are design for two...
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  • lice. 1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Hartley Coleridge in H. J. Jackson (ed.), Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Letters, Oxford: Clarendon...
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  • Philip R. Craig, William G. Tapply, Third Strike: A Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson Mystery, page 27: So, first guy, Larry strikes him out, good fastball in...
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  • turn a blind eye (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ekʷ-)
    now and then, and we get on marvellously well. 1880 October 11, James Jackson Jarves, “Future American art: The growth of truer feeling and sounder methods”...
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  • J. D. Hooker, written during a Botanical Mission to India”, in William Jackson Hooker, editor, Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, London:...
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  • “The Impossible Return and the Strangeness of the Familiar”, in Adrian Jackson, Candida Blaker, transl., Hamlet and the Baker’s Son: My Life in Theatre...
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  • could go. 2012, Carolyn Keene, Mardi Gras Masquerade, →ISBN, page 38: Jackson shook his head. "The contractor said those panes could go at any moment...
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  • pure, commercially produced products do not give a good flash […] 1976, Robert H. Coombs, Lincoln J. Fry, Patricia G. Lewis, Socialization in Drug Abuse...
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  • Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC, stanza 64, page 13:...
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  • Beetha’s; or, The Heiress of Arne, London: “Christian World” Office, […]; Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, […], →OCLC, page 213: But one or two evil-disposed...
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  • England, then in the dry, ſmoaky houſes of Kecoughtan: […] 1775, Samuel Jackson Pratt, “A Moral, and Sentimental Excursion”, in Liberal Opinions, upon...
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  • among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs, […] 2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL [Scottish Premier League]: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record‎[1]...
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  • 2002, Nader H. Bshouty, Jeffrey C. Jackson, Christino Tamon, “Exploring Learnability between Exact and PAC”, in Jyrki Kivinen, Robert H. Sloan, editors...
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  • freshened) (intransitive) To become fresh. To be refreshed. 1799, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings in England‎[2], London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, Volume...
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  • demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques. 2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record‎[1], Glasgow: Reach plc, →ISSN...
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  • Henning, W. (1954) “Notes on the great inscription of Šāpūr I”, in Prof. Jackson memorial volume: Papers on Iranian subjects., Bombay: K. R. Cama Oriental...
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  • Arbour of Vertue, […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The...
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  • the site of a pitched battle. 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way : The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George...
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  • is still being mined on a small scale. 1887, Cha[rle]s D. Lawton, “The Jackson Iron Co.”; “The Cleveland Mining Co.”, in Mines and Mineral Statistics...
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  • and no outgoes. Is that about the size of it? 1949 March 28, Robert H[oughwout] Jackson, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States (delivering...
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  • the movement of a worm”). 1890, Andrew Jackson Howe, “Ovariotomy”, in Operative Gynæcology, Cincinnati, Oh.: Robert Clarke & Co., →OCLC, section XI (Abdominotomy)...
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  • Followeth a Compendious Regiment, or Dietarie of Health. […], London: […] H. Jackson, →OCLC: They loue not porke, nor ſwynes fleſh, but doth vituperate and...
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  • celluloid; a projector stares from the end of the closet. 2007, Michael Jackson, “On Birth, Death, and Rebirth”, in Excursions, Durham, N.C.: Duke University...
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  • free. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate. / / Patience Jackson, 23, very likely wench, mulatto / Says she was born free Rhode Island....
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  • it. 1835, Emma Roberts, “The Taj Mahal, at Agra”, in Views in India, China, and on the Shores of the Red Sea; […], volume I, London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher...
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  • bombast”. c. 1820s, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter I, in James Robert de Jager Jackson, editor, Logic (The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge;...
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  • button holes. 1952 March 29, Harry S. Truman, “Address at the Jefferson–Jackson Day Dinner”, in Harry S. Truman, 1952–53: […] (Public Papers of the Presidents...
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  • "temperless" look for serving ware vessels. 2010, Vernon James Knight, H. Edwin Jackson, Susan L. Scott, Mound Excavations at Moundville, page 160: Random...
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  • superior part of the mantle [of sea slugs of the genus Doris]. 1832, William Jackson Hooker, quoting Pierre Antoine Poiteau, “Couroupita Guianensis. Guiana...
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  • affection; do you take me, Sir, was nai that right?[sic] 1796, Samuel Jackson Pratt, “Letter XXI. To the same.”, in Gleanings through Wales, Holland...
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  • Christ as Lord. Antonym: undominical 1655, James Howell, “XXIX. To W. Roberts, Esq”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […]...
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  • London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Ward and Co.; Jackson and Walford, etc.; Dublin: John Robertson, and Hodges and Smith, →OCLC...
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  • [i.e., Hester] will be glad to recover her parapluie. 1903 September 4, Robert H[arborough] Sherard, “A Waif of the Latin Quarter”, in T[homas] P[ower]...
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  • chapter 7, in Dragon Strike: The Millennium War‎[5] (Fiction), Sidgwick & Jackson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 338: As Reece Overhalt spoke to the President, the...
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  • runnin’ in a new bed three miles to the north, leavin’ me a citizen of Jackson County. 1898, Ernest R[ichard] Suffling, “[Josh Ingham: Trapper.] The Story...
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  • Treats of Romance”, in The Minister’s Wooing, New York, N.Y.: Derby and Jackson, […], →OCLC, page 120: There is no end of the epigrams and witticisms which...
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  • sunshine never sleeps, but where death and gloom ever dwell together. 1911, Robert Allbut, “The Burial Ground in Bleak House”, in The Dickensian, volume 8...
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  • somebody unfit to stand trial. 1982, Christopher D. Webster, Robert J. Menzies, Margaret A. Jackson, Clinical Assessment Before Trial: Legal Issues and Mental...
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