Jenkins
/ (ˈdʒɛŋkɪnz) /
Roy (Harris), Baron Jenkins of Hillhead. 1920–2003, British politician and author; Labour home secretary (1965–67, 1974–76) and chancellor of the exchequer (1967–70); president of the European Commission (1977–80); cofounder of the Social Democratic Party (1981); leader of party (1982–83); Chancellor of Oxford University (1987–2003)
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"That was crazy," Lynn Jenkins of Kansas muttered to another member as she walked to greet Boehner.
Democrats Accidentally Save Boehner From Republican Coup | Ben Jacobs, Jackie Kucinich | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThey were finally accepted by a Labour Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, in 1967.
The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero | Clive Irving | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen the day of the meeting came, Jenkins showed up, but Rahall did not, and sent his campaign manager, citing a “conflict”.
But Jenkins concedes that eccentricity is not what it once was.
Thus, as Jenkins writes, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proclaims ISIS is an “imminent threat to every interest we have.”
French Jihadi Mehdi Nemmouche Is the Shape of Terror to Come | Christopher Dickey | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Among them was the Marquis de Monpavon, whose abode Jenkins was now on his way to visit.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetAnd the Jenkins pills became famous precisely by reason of that lash of the whip which they gave to jaded existences.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetTo their last day Jenkins's clients went about, showed themselves, cheated the devouring egotism of the crowd.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetMme. Jenkins, that stately woman, of bearing at once so proud and so gentle, had no real title to the name.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetBrother Jenkins, the fraud, of the Society of Seven, is about the most entertaining of the marionettes.
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