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surname . - proper noun A male
given name transferred back from the surname.
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Examples
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I hear as a last resort he could be digging up Aneurin Bevan as "minister for hope"
Barrel Scraped, Digging Deeper.... Dungeekin 2009
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Dr Williams was given the Bardic name of ap Aneuri, which he chose partly after a sixth century Welsh poet and partly after Aneurin Bevan, one of his personal heroes and the architect of the National Health Service.
Pagans show up at Stonehenge on the wrong day « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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Especially after Aneurin Bevan and Tommy Douglas? automaticMojo says:
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The National Assembly has adopted Aneurin Bevan's vision that the health service would be free for patients in need of help.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Indeed, on one occasion, he performed fellatio on Aneurin Bevan in a House of Commons office.
Oatengate Part 2 2006
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Jennie Lee, who married Aneurin Bevan in 1934 and later was appointed first Minister for the Arts, wrote to a Miss Margaret Goalby in 1950: 'In the first year of the Spanish Civil War I was sitting with friends in a hotel in Barcelona when a tall thin man with a ravished complexion came over to the table.
George Orwell FAQ - George Orwell: The Chestnut Tree Cafe 2003
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Foot and Aneurin Bevan - left-wing, but also libertarian, egalitarian and hostile to the Communist Party.
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Aneurin Bevan, the Labour politician, wrote, There will have to be a great recasting of values.
Order in the Family 2001
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Aneurin Bevan, the Labour politician, wrote, There will have to be a great recasting of values.
Order in the Family 2001
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Though his unpalatable opinions restricted his access to mainstream publications -- most of his commentaries were written for Tribune, an influential but small-circulation weekly newspaper backed by the Labour Party's star heavy weight, Aneurin Bevan -- Orwell went on insisting that the Soviet regime was a tyranny, even as the Red Army battled the Panzers to a standstill on the outskirts of Moscow.
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