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  • Badcock had served in the army in India and reports tell of his urbane, immaculately groomed manner.

    Zulqarnain Haider and Pakistan benefit from decision review system David Hopps at Edgbaston 2010

  • At that time Test cricket was confident of expansion and Badcock would probably have regarded the game as a vital product of Empire.

    Zulqarnain Haider and Pakistan benefit from decision review system David Hopps at Edgbaston 2010

  • Autistic behaviors, Badcock and Crespi argue, are the diametric opposite of both paranoia and the full spectrum of related psychotic and mood disorders, which include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression.

    Schizophrenia, Hyper-Mentalism, and the Happy Puppet « Millicent and Carla Fran 2008

  • When Tenniel was doing the drawings for Alice, he modelled the heroine on the daughter of Canon Badcock, Mary, after being given a photograph of her by Carroll.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Jonathan 2006

  • When Tenniel was doing the drawings for Alice, he modelled the heroine on the daughter of Canon Badcock, Mary, after being given a photograph of her by Carroll.

    Alice's adventures started here... Jonathan 2006

  • And there's something else: while researchers such as Crespi and Badcock are generously funded for work on their theory of how mental disorders come into being, and the Times and others take heart from it, back in the hospitals, wards, and residences where these people live, there are no funds for basic, human care.

    Jay Neugeboren: Not By Genes Alone 2008

  • Badcock (who was mad, according to our measures) had discovered, and treasured up; and now was his revenge-time.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Christopher Badcock was a tenant farmer, in the parish of

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • I believe you were standing quite near Miss Gregg when Mr and Mrs Badcock arrived. '

    A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side Christie, Agatha 1962

  • 'Then Alfred Beadle changed his name to Badcock,' said

    A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side Christie, Agatha 1962

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