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Donovan

[don-uh-vuhn]

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noun

William Joseph (“Wild Bill”), 1883–1959, U.S. lawyer and military officer: organizer and director of the OSS 1942–45.

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Donovan

from Ir. Donndubhan "dark brown."

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