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Bowles

[ bohlz ]

noun

  1. Chester, 1901–86, U.S. statesman and author: special adviser on Afro-Asian and Latin American affairs; ambassador to India 1951–53, 1963–69.
  2. Paul (Frederic), 1910?–1999, U.S. novelist and composer.
  3. Samuel, 1826–78, U.S. journalist.


Bowles

/ bəʊlz /

noun

  1. BowlesPaul19101999MUSWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writerMUSIC: composer Paul . 1910–99, US novelist, short-story writer, and composer, living in Tangiers. His novels include The Sheltering Sky (1949) and The Spider's House (1955)


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This is a job for independent committees, like Bowles-Simpson, not a partisan slugfest.

Sure, there was top royalty (Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles) and a former Prime Minister (John Major).

Camilla Parker Bowles' younger brother Mark Shand has died in New York after a freak accident.

We saw this same gap when the Bowles-Simpson commission unveiled their bipartisan proposals to deal with the deficit and the debt.

Like Gregg, Crapo was a member of the Simpson-Bowles commission and supported its reform proposal.

"I beg your Majesty's pardon," began Mr. Bowles, doubtfully.

In politics Mr. Bowles is a democrat and has been called upon to fill public office.

(Macmillan & Bowles), has just come from the press, it is fashionable to say that he follows after Calverley, at some distance.

Mr Bowles—mirabile dictu—backs his old schoolmaster against the goddess.

Mr Bowles, himself a true poet, thinks the Fourth Book the best.

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